Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:15:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: root@aries.fb3.noaa.gov Subject: Re: gcc for freebsd? Message-ID: <199511210815.JAA16911@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511210200.SAA17124@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Nov 20, 95 06:00:23 pm
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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. ;-)
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