Comments on: Building and using GCC 0.9 aka the first public version https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-256818 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:42:05 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-256818 In reply to neozeed.

Back in the day, I would use the GNAT Ada packages as they relied on GCC! I’d written a convaluted process that I illustrated on an emulated sparc, but I’ve done on RS/6000 power and PowerPC and HPPA.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2010/05/04/200th-post-and-using-ada-to-fix-your-system/

If you are comfortable with unixy commands it’s pretty simple, and it gives you a leg up.

PCC supports 64 bit ISA so I’m not sure if that will help.

I’ve rebuilt GCC v1 and 2 using MinGW GCC v3, 5 and 7.. There is a couple of weird things but it’s not impossible. Be sure to keep an old bison and flex handy. I’ve used the tool chains to build Linux kernels without much fail, the hardest thing is the Linux tools to convert the kernels to bootable images.

If you have issues let me know I’ll see what I can do!

Good luck!

]]> By: OldBlueBear https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-256817 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:08:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-256817 hi, thank you for replying and relating history of gcc versions and which may still do K&R C. back in the late 1980s early 1990s remember compiling linux and gcc took ages on early AMD chip based machines. It is more a question for which CPU/platform can I get a K&R C compiler that can compile itself hopefully in K&R C rather than pick the platform/CPU and find a K&R C compiler. I have Solaris 8 running on spark-v9 machine that has a command line arrow key bug still looking at. The Sun C compiler and Sun lint certainly do not like “raw” K&R C straight from the Whitebook. But not a big job to get it to compiler and run OK.
I am in the process of downloading sources for various gcc’s to look at what changes were made to bring it up on sparc, and will have a look at pcc too.
thanks again (dja.)

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-256813 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 03:53:30 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-256813 In reply to OldeBlueBear.

The problem you will face is that the SPARC came along much later. If you run SunOS it’ll have that SUN compiler derivative. PCC the portable C compiler, PCC, has sparc64 support, although it was added later. SPARC support was added in GCC 1.36, back in 1989.

For old SPARC & 68020 GCC 1.40 will do it, GCC 2.x will support more modern processor (at least 030) and K&R.

If you have sources greenhill will most defiantly support it,I guess the real question is what system are you planning to build from?

]]> By: OldeBlueBear https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-256807 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:03:07 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-256807 Will this compileer, compiler unchanged K&R C such as to be found in the my copy of Whitebook First Edition.(1970)? Forget about “C designed by committees”;
I need a real K&R C compiler for SPARC (up to V9) and MC68000 series to MC68040 will this go even part way to compiling for these processor families??

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-176427 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 06:24:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-176427 In reply to Roy.

I went ahead and tried the oldest version of GAS I could find, 1.19 that identifies as “Gnu assembler version 1.19 (I guess.)”… Anyways it’s very buggy unfortunately. I can compile simple stuff like hello world fine, but trying to build bison it injects blank symbols, when building with GCC, and building with CC it fails to assemble entire blocks.

I guess the solution is to simply use a later version, but I guess it’s worth knowing on 4.2BSD at any rate it doesn’t work that well on the VAX. I suspect it may fare better on the 68020 based SUN-2 kit that I think they used in the FSF in the mid to late 1980s.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-176347 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 05:59:25 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-176347 In reply to Roy.

Yes, I’ve recently found all kinds of old binutils & gas. I just haven’t tried them yet.

]]> By: Roy https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-176337 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 03:47:21 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-176337 Old binutils are here: http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/binutils/old-releases/

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-175989 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 01:34:02 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-175989 In reply to dugo.

Yes, I haven’t found any ancient binutils 1.x the oldest I seem to have is a 2.16.

You can browse the source code to GCC 0.9 here, if you want to check it out.

]]> By: dugo https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/comment-page-1/#comment-175983 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:31:29 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6653#comment-175983 awesome stuff, this uses the native `as’, right!?

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