Forwarded message:
| From zuazaga@ucunix Sun Feb 23 14:12 PST 1992
| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 92 16:37:52 EST
| From: zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga)
| Subject: Re: GCC for Linux
| In-Reply-To: <9202230815.AA24216@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu>; from
|  "Hongjiu Lu -- Graduate Student" at Feb 23, 92 12:15 am
| To: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu -- Graduate Student)
| Cc: corsini@labri.greco-prog.FR (Marc Corsini)
| Reply-To: zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.EDU
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| Hongjiu Lu -- Graduate Student wrote:
| > > them to tsx-11? If you did, did you sent a note to tytso@athena.mit.edu
| > > telling him about the upload? I have not found the files as of 12:30am
| > 
| > Maybe I should. Perhaps, he is testing it now. Try ftp.eecs.umich.edu
| > under /incoming.
| 
| Yes, you definitely should. If not, they will not be made available. I
| did get them from umich, as you said, but tsx-11 incoming directory is
| write only, no reads allowed.
| 

This gcc 1.40 and libc.a is just a quick hack to get rid of estdio. I
really don't like them. They will be replaced by 2.0 soon. The stdio
for 2.0 will be based on iostream.

| 
| However, the libsoft.a supplied with newgcc.tar.Z has not been ranlib'd,
| and will NOT work (undefined symbols). I rebuilt the whole thing from
| source, but I suspect I only needed to ranlib the original to get it to
| work.
| 

Sorry about that. Just do a ranlib is enough.

| The top level makefile needs some work, especially to work with floating
| point emulation. The DIRS values need to change depending on the math
| lib used, and the entry with mlinux needs stdio added to the list.
| 

Yes. Add stdio. Please try mlinux if you have a 387. I was told DJ's
copyright notice is funny. The only DJ's code in gcc 2.0 will be just
11 assembler functions in mlinux. They are not very hard to write if
you know some 387. I rewrote the part of mlinux. I hope someone will
finish it. Of courses, they should be at least as good as DJ's code.
Mathlib 2.1 may be a good start.


H.J.
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