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From: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problems with HP9000/500 assembler
Summary: Porting GNU anything to 500 is like *WOW* difficult
Message-ID: <481@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 03:12:12 GMT
References: <601@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA>
Reply-To: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien)
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Organization: WINCO, INEL, Idaho
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In article <601@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA> robbin@resrch.UUCP (Robbin W. Johnson) writes:
<>While bring GNU CC up on our 500 I have encountered a problem with the
<>assembler.  First off, we are running HPUX 5.21 on a 2 CPU 550.
<>
<>While compiling one of the files auto-magically generated during the
<>make'ing of cc1, the compiler fatally errors with the following:
<>
<>  cc -g -DCROSSATARI=1 -DMINIX -c insn-extract.c
<>  as: /tmp/ctm3CAAa11176: fatal error in line 11312, proctable overflow

Those of us with 500 series out in netland would love to hear more about
your porting of GNU CC to the 500 series. The way HP explained it to me
was that the assembler is unsupported; then they later came out with
"sort-of" documentation for it (when they put the disassembler on the SE
tapes). Given the architecture of the 550; I'd have thought that a GNU
cc port would be pretty difficult (read PAINFUL :-)). Don't get me
wrong; I *like* my 550s; they're the most reliable machines I've ever
used. One I've got has been up over a year non-stop now, and only the
ptydaemon gives me a little indigestion :-).  Please tell us more, if
you get it working.

>-- 
>Robbin Johnson					...!ubc-cs!van-bc!resrch!robbin
>robbin@MoliEnergy.BC.CA				...!uunet!/


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