From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 21 00:53:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA26657 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:53:11 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26650 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:53:03 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA01030; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:51:26 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA16212; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:51:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA16911; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:15:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511210815.JAA16911@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: gcc for freebsd? To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:15:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: root@aries.fb3.noaa.gov Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511210200.SAA17124@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Nov 20, 95 06:00:23 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 921 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Satoshi Asami wrote: > > * If it isn't, then how did you get gnu f77 working? > * I thought g77 relied on gcc as it's back end! Also, I noticed the text > * associated with bcc - "can do 16-bit code". Is freebsd a 16-bit OS? > > No, it's a full 32-bit OS. I believe the thing about bcc is that you > can use it to generate programs that can run on 16-bit OS's (like > DOpeS) if you do something clever. Yup. It's not directly intented to produce DOpeS code (it produces some a.out, i believe it's been a Minix one originally), however it can be abused to create a DOS .com file with minor tweaking. Bcc itself can also be compiled to produce 6809 code, which is an 8-bit CPU. Doesn't mean FreeBSD were an 8-bit operating system either. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)