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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:39:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C++ to C convertor?? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970917203713.12840A-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
In-Reply-To: <6019.874540781@orion.webspan.net>

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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Gary Palmer wrote:

> ``mangled assembly''? :-)
> 
=)
Yeah, I meant that it is not syntactically like gnu ARM assembly.

> I bet its a version of the Acorn ARM assembler. It should understand
> .o, and should have its own linker. So you can compile the stuff using
> gcc on another box, and take it over to the devel env and link (in
> theory). That is assuming that DEC didn't use a proprietary assembler.
> 
Bingo.  They use an object file format called Arm Object Format.  Not
supported by gnu gcc.

> Any idea what the DEC compiler is called? 
> 
Actually, it is from ARM.  It is part of the ARM Software Development Kit.

Kyle Mestery
StorageTek's Network Systems Group
7600 Boone Ave. N., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428
mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com

"You do not greet Death, you punch him in the throat 
repeatedly until he drags you away."	--No Fear





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