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Re: newbie with a board
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- To: John Clark <j1clark at ucsd dot edu>
- Cc: Bob Koninckx <bob dot koninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>,Abrar H Hazarika <abrar at ECOMSCIENCE dot COM>,ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:08:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] newbie with a board
- References: <0DE2852A-75A1-11D7-BC10-0050E420D957@ucsd.edu>
John Clark wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 23.04.03, um 03:21 Uhr (US/Pacific) schrieb Bob Koninckx:
reason being that you 'd have to start porting the GNU compiler to it
first. And that's still considered to be _hard_ for anything else but 32
or 64 bit architectures.
So, I can't get eCos up for my PDP-11's... then there's the Z80,
:-) We don't have any religious objection to supporting non-GCC ports, but
obviously at this point it's pretty difficult and with requirements like
C++ constructor priority ordering, or even just requiring arbitary
sections which not many other executable formats than ELF can do, there
are going to be difficulties.
Jifl
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