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From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: lcc: anyone wants another C compiler?
To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
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The Homepage (http://www.openwatcom.org/) mentions
that Linux and FreeBSD ports are planned.

cheers,

    Pedro.

 --- John Merryweather Cooper
<john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> ha scritto: > I have no
opinion on devel/lcc . . . :)
> 
> However, it is interesting to note:
> 
> 1) OpenWatcom's binary patch 11.0c was released 24
> December 2002;
> 2) After downloading it for my OS/2 system, I
> discovered that WLINK and 
> associated tools are now ELF enabled and now default
> to DWARF debugging 
> format instead of WATCOM's proprietary format;
> 
> Since the sources have evolved from a respected
> commercial compiler with 
> a reputation for code quality, this looks like an
> interesting project.  
> I think it would involve:
> 
> 1) making the compiler itself truly turnout ELF
> objects (don't know how 
> well it does that now);
> 2) convert the build to ELF native;
> 3) merge the libc's;
> 4) build compatibility stub programs to call the
> OpenWatcom utilities 
> with *NIX switches;
> 5) release the result as a port;
> 
> jmc
> 


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