Great news, Paul! I'll try and give this a go this weekend.
Aaron Paul Koning via cctalk writes: > Gentlepeople, > > Once in a while people ask about GCC. It has long had pdp11 support, > but it hasn't received much attention. Recently I've done some > cleanup on it, and some more is in the pipeline. > > One notable new feature is that it can now produce proper DEC Macro-11 > syntax output. It has long had a -mdec-asm switch, but that used to > produce GNU output. Now it produces DEC output (and -mgnu-asm is how > you get output for "gas".) > > The optimizer is better, and a bunch of compiler failures are fixed. > Undoubtedly there are more bugs to be worked on. > > Oh yes, for grins I told GCC to build not just a C compiler but a C++ > and Fortran compiler as well. That seems to work (but I get an error > building the libstdc++ library). I now have C++ translations of the > RSTS standard header files common.mac and kernel.mac, and the DECnet > definitions in netdef.sml. :-) > > If anyone wants to give this a try, the best way is to get the current > code via Subversion (see gcc.gnu.org for details). Alternatively, get > a weekly snapshot; the DEC support is in the current latest, though > some optimizer work will appear in the next one. > > paul -- Aaron Jackson PhD Student, Computer Vision Laboratory, Uni of Nottingham http://aaronsplace.co.uk
