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Configurations
supported by GNU CC
The following documentation discusses the supported configurations
when using GNU CC. See also notes regarding special
configurations.
The following are the possible
CPU types:
1750a, a29k, alpha, arm,
cn, clipper, dsp16xx, elxsi, h8300, hppa1.0, hppa1.1, i370, i386,
i486, i586, i860, i960, m68000, m68k, m88k, mips, mipsel, mips64, mips64el,
ns32k, powerpc, powerpcle, pyramid, romp, rs6000, sh, sparc, sparclite,
sparc64, vax, we32k.
The following are the recognized
company names. As you can see, customary abbreviations are used rather
than the longer official names.
acorn, alliant, altos, apollo,
apple, att, bull, cbm, convergent, convex, crds, dec, dg, dolphin, elxsi,
encore, harris, hitachi, hp, ibm, intergraph, isi, mips, motorola, ncr,
next, ns, omron, plexus, sequent, sgi, sony, sun, tti, unicom, wrs.
The company name is meant only
to clarify when the rest of the information supplied is insufficient. You
can omit it, substituting cpu-
system, if
it is not needed. For example, vax-ultrix4.2
is equivalent to vax-dec-ultrix4.2.
The following is a list of
system types:
386bsd, aix, acis, amigados,
aos, aout, aux, bosx, bsd, clix, coff, ctix, cxux, dgux, dynix, ebmon,
ecoff, elf, esix, freebsd, hms, genix, gnu, gnu/linux, hiux, hpux, iris,
irix, isc, luna, lynxos, mach, minix, msdos, mvs, netbsd, newsos, nindy,
ns, osf, osfrose, ptx, riscix, riscos, rtu, sco, sim, solaris, sunos, sym,
sysv, udi, ultrix, unicos, uniplus, unos, vms, vsta, vxworks, winnt, xenix.
You can omit the system type;
then configure
guesses the operating system from the CPU and company.
You can add a version number
to the system type; this may or may not make a difference. For example,
you can write bsd4.3
or bsd4.4
to distinguish versions of BSD. In practice, the version number is most
needed for sysv3
and sysv4,
which are often treated differently.
If you specify an impossible
combination such as i860-dg-vms,
then you may get an error message from configure,
or it may ignore part of the information and do the best it can with the
rest. configure
always prints the canonical name for the alternative that it used. GNU
CC does not support all possible alternatives.
Often a particular model
of machine has a name. Many machine names are recognized as aliases for
CPU/company combinations. Thus, the machine name sun3,
mentioned previously, is an alias for m68k-sun.
Sometimes we accept a company
name as a machine name, when the name is popularly used for a particular
machine.
The following are the known
machine names:
3300, 3b1, 3b n, 7300, altos3068,
altos, apollo68, att-7300, balance, convex-c n, crds, decstation-3100,
decstation, delta, encore, fx2800, gmicro, hp7 nn, hp8nn,
hp9k2nn, hp9k3nn, hp9k7nn, hp9k8nn, iris4d,
iris, isi68, m3230, magnum, merlin, miniframe, mmax, news-3600, news800,
news, next, pbd, pc532, pmax, powerpc, powerpcle, ps2, risc-news, rtpc,
sun2, sun386i, sun386, sun3, sun4, symmetry, tower-32, tower.
Remember that a machine name
specifies both the cpu type and the company name. If you want to
install your own homemade configuration files, you can use local
as the company name to access them. If you use configuration cpu-local,
the configuration name without the cpu
prefix is used to form the configuration filenames. Thus, if you specify
m68k-local,
configuration uses files m68k.md,
local.h,
m68k.c,
xm-local.h,
t-local,
and x-local,
all in the directory, config/m68k.
What
follows is a list of configurations that have special treatment or special
things you must know.
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1750a-*-*
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MIL-STD-1750A processors. Starting
with GCC 2.6.1, the MIL-STD-1750A cross configuration no longer supports
the Tektronix Assembler, but instead produces output for as1750,
an assembler/linker available under the GNU Public License for the 1750A.
Contact kellogg@space.otn.dasa.de
for more details on obtaining as1750.
A similarly licensed simulator for the 1750A is available from the same
address. You should ignore a fatal error during the building of libgcc
(libgcc
is not yet implemented for the 1750A.) The as1750
assembler requires the file, ms1750.inc,
which is found in the directory, config/1750a.
GNU CC produced the same sections as the Fairchild F9450 C Compiler, namely:
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Normal
The program code section.
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Static
The read/write (RAM) data
section.
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Konst
The read-only (ROM) constants
section.
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Init
Initialization section (code
to copy KREL to SREL).
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The smallest addressable unit
is 16 bits (BITS PER UNIT is 16). This means that type char
is represented with a 16-bit word per character. The 1750As Load/Store
Upper/Lower Byte instructions are not used by GNU CC.
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alpha-*-osf1
Systems using processors
that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and are running the DEC Unix
(OSF/1) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems. (VMS on
the Alpha is not currently supported by GNU CC.)
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GNU CC writes a .verstamp
directive to the assembler output file unless it is built as a cross-compiler.
It gets the version to use from the system header file, /usr/include/stamp.h.
If you install a new version of DEC Unix, you should rebuild GCC to pick
up the new version stamp.
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Note:
Since the Alpha is a 64-bit
architecture, cross-compilers from 32-bit machines will not generate code
as efficient as that generated when the compiler is running on a 64-bit
machine. That is because many optimizations that depend on being able to
represent a word on the target in an integral value on the host cannot
be performed.
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Building cross-compilers on
the Alpha for 32-bit machines has only been tested in a few cases and may
not work properly.
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make
compare may fail
on old versions of DEC Unix unless you add -save-temps
to CFLAGS.
On these systems, the name of the assembler input file is stored in the
object file, and that makes comparison fail if it differs between the stage1
and stage2
compilations. The option, -save-temps,
forces a fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead of
a randomly chosen name in /tmp.
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Do not add -save-temps
unless the comparisons fail without that option. If you add -save-temps,
you will have to manually delete the .i
and .s
files after each series of compilations.
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GNU CC now supports both the
native (ECOFF) debugging format used by DBX and GDB and an encapsulated
stabs format
for use only with GDB. See Installing
GNU CC for a discussion of the --with-stabs
option of configure
for more information on these formats and how to select them.
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There is a bug in DECs assembler
that produces incorrect line numbers for ECOFF format when the .align
directive is used. To work around this problem, GNU CC will not emit such
alignment directives while writing ECOFF format debugging information even
if optimization is being performed. Unfortunately, this has the very undesirable
side-effect that code addresses when -O
is specified are different depending on whether or not -g
is also specified.
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To avoid this behavior, specify
-gstabs+
and use GDB in-stead of DBX. DEC is now aware of this problem with the
assembler and hopes to provide a fix shortly. See Options
for debugging your program or GNU CC.
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arc-*-elf
Argonaut ARC processor.
This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
arm-*-aout
Advanced RISC Machines
ARM-family processors. These are often used in embedded applications. There
are no standard Unix con gurations. This configuration corresponds to the
basic instruction sequences and will produce a.out
format object modules.
You may need to make a variant of the file, arm.h, for your particuar configuration.
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arm-*-linuxaout
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Any of the ARM family processors
running the Linux-based GNU system with the a.out
binary format (ELF is not yet supported). You must use version 2.8.1.0.7
or later of the GNU/Linux binutils, which you can download from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/GCC,
and other mirror sites for Linux-based GNU systems.
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arm-*-riscix
The ARM2 or ARM3 processor
running RISC iX, Acorns port of BSD Unix. If you are running a version
of RISC iX prior to 1.2, then you must specify the version number during
configuration.
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Note:
The assembler shipped with
RISC iX does not support stabs
debugging information; a new version of the assembler, with stabs
support included, is now available from Acorn.
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a29k
AMD Am29k-family processors.
These are normally used in embedded applications. There are no standard
Unix configurations. This configuration corresponds to AMDs standard calling
sequence and binary interface and is compatible with other 29k tools.
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You may need to make a variant
of the file a29k.h
for your particular configuration.
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a29k-*-bsd
AMD Am29050 used in a system
running a variant of BSD Unix.
decstation-*
DECstations can support
three different personalities: Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, and OSF/rose. To configure
GCC for these platforms use the following configurations:
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decstation-ultrix
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decstation-osf1
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decstation-osfrose
Open Software Foundation
reference port of OSF/1 which uses the OSF/rose object file for-mat instead
of ECOFF. Normally, you would not select this configuration.
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The MIPS C compiler needs to
be told to increase its table size for switch statements with the -Wf,-XNg1500
option in order to compile cp/parse.c.
If you use the -O2
optimization option, you also need to use -Olimit
3000. Both of
these options are automatically generated in the Makefile
that the shell script configure
builds. If you override the CC make
variable and use the MIPS compilers, you may need to add -Wf,-XNg1500
-Olimit 3000.
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elxsi-elxsi-bsd
The Elxsis C compiler has
known limitations that prevent it from compiling GNU C. Please contact
mrs@cygnus.com
for more details.
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dsp16xx
A port to the AT&T DSP1610
family of processors.
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h8300-*-*
The calling convention and
structure layout has changed in release 2.6. All code must be recompiled.
The calling convention now passes the first three arguments in function
calls in registers. Structures are no longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
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hppa*-*-*
There are several variants
of the HP-PA processor which run a variety of operating systems. GNU CC
must be configured to use the correct processor type and operating system,
or GNU CC will not function correctly. The easiest way to handle this problem
is to avoid specifying a target when configuring GNU CC. The configure
script will try to automatically determine the right processor type and
operating system.
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-g
does not work on HPUX, since that system uses a peculiar debugging format
about which GNU CC does not know. However, -g
will work if you also use GAS and GDB in conjunction with GCC. We highly
recommend using GAS for all HPPA configurations.
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You should be using GAS-2.6
(or later) along with GDB-4.16 (or later). These can be retrieved from
all the traditional GNU ftp archive sites. Install GAS into a directory
before /bin,
/usr/bin,
and /usr/ccs/bin
in your search path.
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To enable debugging, configure
GNU CC with the --with-gnu-as
option before building.
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i370-*-*
This port is very preliminary
and has many known bugs. We hope to have a higher-quality port for this
machine soon.
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i386-*-linux-gnuoldld
Use this configuration to
generate a.out
binaries on Linux if you do not have gas/binutils
version 2.5.2
or later installed. This is an obsolete configuration.
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i386-*-linux-gnuaout
Use this configuration to
generate a.out
binaries on Linux. This configuration is being superseded. You must use
gas/binutils
version 2.5.2 or later.
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i386-*-linux-gnu
Use this configuration to
generate ELF binaries on Linux. You must use gas/binutils
version 2.5.2 or later.
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i386-*-sco
Compilation with RCC is
recommended. Also, it may be a good idea to link with GNU malloc
instead of the malloc
that comes with the system.
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i386-*-sco3.2v4
Use this configuration for
SCO release 3.2 version 4.0.
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i386-*-sco3.2v5
Use this for SCO Open Server
release 3.2 version 5.0. GNU CC can generate ELF binaries (if you specify
-melf)
or COFF binaries (the default). If you are going to build your compiler
in ELF mode (once you have bootstrapped the first stage compiler) you must
specify -melf
as part of CC, not CFLAGS.
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You should use some variant
of: CC="stage1/xgcc
-melf" CFLAGS="-Bstage1/".
If you do not do this, the bootstrap will generate completely bogus versions
of libgcc.a.
You must have TLS597 (from ftp.sco.com/TLS)
installed for ELF binaries to work correctly.
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Note:
Open Server 5.0.2 does need
TLS597 installed.
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i386-*-isc
It may be a good idea to
link with GNU malloc
instead of the malloc
that comes with the system. In ISC version 4.1, sed
core dumps when building deduced.h.
Use the version of sed
from version 4.0.
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i386-*-esix
It may be good idea to link
with GNU malloc instead of
the malloc that comes with
the system.
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i386-ibm-aix
You need to use GAS version
2.1 or later, and LD from GNU binutils version 2.2 or later.
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i386-sequent-bsd
Go to the Berkeley universe
before compiling. In addition, you probably need to create a file named
string.h
using #include <strings.h>.
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i386-sequent-ptx1*
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i386-sequent-ptx2*
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i386-sun-sunos4
You may find that you need
another version of GNU CC to begin bootstrapping with, since the current
version when built with the systems own compiler seems to get an infinite
loop compiling part of libgcc2.c.
GNU CC version 2 compiled with GNU CC (any version) seems not to have this
problem. See Installing
GNU CC on the Sun for information on installing GNU CC on Sun systems.
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i[345]86-*-winnt3.5
This version requires a
GAS that has not let been released. Until it is, you can get a pre-built
binary version via anonymous ftp from cs.washington.edu:pub/gnat
or cs.nyu.edu:pub/gnat.
You must also use the Microsoft header files from the Windows NT 3.5 SDK.
Find these on the CDROM in the /mstools/h
directory dated September 4, 1994. You must use a fixed version of Microsoft
linker made especially for NT 3.5, which is also is available on the NT
3.5 SDK CDROM. If you do not have this linker, can you also use the linker
from Visual C/C++ 1.0 or 2.0.
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Installing GNU CC for NT builds
a wrapper linker, called ld.exe,
which mimics the behavior of Unix ld
in the specification of libraries
(-L
and -l).
ld.exe
looks for both Unix and Microsoft named libraries. For example, if you
specify -lfoo,
ld.exe
will look first for libfoo.a
and then for foo.lib.
You may install GNU CC for Windows NT in one of two ways, depending on
whether or not you have a Unix-like shell and various Unix-like utilities.
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If you do not have a Unix-like
shell and few Unix-like utilities, you will use a DOS style batch script
called configure.bat.
Invoke it as configure
winnt from an
MSDOS console window or from the program manager dialog box. configure.bat
assumes you have already installed and have in your path a Unix-like sed
pro-gram which is used to create a working Makefile
from Makefile.in.
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Makefile
uses the Microsoft Nmake
program maintenance utility and the Visual C/C++ V8.00 compiler to build
GNU CC.
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You only need the utilities,
sed
and touch,
to use this installation method, which only automatically builds the compiler
itself. You must then examine what fixinc.winnt
does, edit the header files by hand and build libgcc.a
manually.
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The second type of installation
assumes you are running a Unix-like shell, have a complete suite of Unix-like
utilities in your path, and have a previous version of GNU CC already installed,
either through building it via the previous installation method or acquiring
a pre-built binary. In this case, use the configure
script in the normal fashion.
i860-intel-osf1
This is the Paragon. If
you have version 1.0 of the operating system, see Installation
problems for special things you need to do to compensate for peculiarities
in the system.
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*-lynx-lynxos
LynxOS 2.2 and earlier comes
with GNU CC 1.x already installed as /bin/gcc.
You should compile with /bin/gcc
instead of /bin/cc.
You can tell GNU CC to use the GNU assembler and linker, by specifying
the --with-gnu-as
and --with-gnu-ld
options when configuring. These will produce COFF format object files and
executables; otherwise GNU CC will use the installed tools, which produce
a.out
format executables.
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m32r-*-elf
Mitsubishi M32R processor.
This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
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m68000-hp-bsd
HP 9000 series 200 running
BSD.
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Note:
The C compiler that comes
with this system cannot compile GNUCC; contact law@cs.utah.edu
to get binaries of GNU CC for bootstrapping.
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m68k-altos
Altos 3068. You must use
the GNU assembler, linker and debugger. Also, you must fix a kernel bug.
Details in the file, README.ALTOS.
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m68k-apple-aux
Apple Macintosh running
A/UX. You may configure GCC to use either the system assembler and linker
or the GNU assembler and linker.
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You should use the GNU configuration
if you can, especially if you also want to use GNU C++. You enabled that
configuration with the --with-gnu-as
and --with-gnu-ld
options to configure.
Note:
The C compiler that comes
with this system cannot compile GNU CC. You can fine binaries of GNU CC
for bootstrapping on jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov.
There is also a patched version of /bin/ld
there that raises some of the arbitrary limits found in the original.
m68k-att-sysv
AT&T 3b1, a.k.a. 7300
PC. Special procedures are needed to compile GNU CC with this machines
standard C compiler, due to bugs in that compiler. You can bootstrap it
more easily with previous versions of GNU CC if you have them. Installing
GNU CC on the 3b1 is difficult if you do not already have GNU CC running,
due to bugs in the installed C compiler. However, the following procedure
might work. (We are unable to test it.)
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1.
Comment out #include
"config.h" on
line 37 of cccp.c
and do make cpp.
This makes a preliminary version of GNU cpp.
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2.
Save the old /lib/cpp
and copy the preliminary GNU cpp to that filename.
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3.
Undo your change in cccp.c,
or reinstall the original version, and do make
cpp again.
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4.
Copy this final version
of GNU cpp
into /lib/cpp.
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5.
Replace every occurrence
of obstack_free
in the file, tree.c,
with _obstack_free.
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6.
Run make to get the first-stage
GNU CC.
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7.
Reinstall the original version
of /lib/cpp.
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8.
Now you can compile GNU
CC with itself and install it in the normal fashion.
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m68k-bull-sysv
Bull DPX/2 series 200 and
300 with BOS2.00.45 up to BOS-2.01. GNU CC works either with native assembler
or GNU assembler.
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You can use GNU assembler with
native coff generation by providing --with-gnu-as
to the configure script
or use GNU assembler with dbx-in-coff
encapsulation
by providing --with-gnu-asstabs.
For any problem with native assembler or for availability of the DPX/2
port of GAS, contact: F.Pierresteguy@frcl.bull.fr.
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m68k-crds-unox
Use configure
unos for building
on Unos. The Unos assembler is named casm
instead of as.
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For some strange reason, linking
/bin/as
to /bin/casm
changes the behavior, and does not work.
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So, when installing GNU CC,
you should install the following script as as
in the subdirectory where the passes of GCC are installed:
#!/bin/sh
casm $*
The default Unos library is
named libunos.a
instead of libc.a.
To allow GNU CC to function, either change all references to -lc
in gcc.c
to -lunos
or link /lib/libc.a
to /lib/libunos.a.
When compiling GNU CC with the
standard compiler, to overcome bugs in the support of alloca,
do not use -O
when making stage 2. Then use the stage 2 compiler with -O
to make the stage 3 compiler. This compiler will have the same characteristics
as the usual stage 2 compiler on other systems. Use it to make a stage
4 compiler and compare that with stage 3 to verify proper compilation.
Unos uses memory segmentation
instead of demand paging, so you will need a lot of memory. 5 Mb is barely
enough if no other tasks are running. If linking cc1
fails, try putting the object files into a library and linking from that
library.
m68k-hp-hpux
HP 9000 series 300 or 400
running HPUX. HPUX version 8.0 has a bug in the assembler that prevents
compilation of GNU CC. To fix it, get patch PHCO 4484 from HP.
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In addition, if you wish to
use the gas
function --with-gnu-as,
you must use gas,
version 2.1 or later, and you must use the GNU linker version 2.1 or later.
Earlier versions of gas
relied upon a program which converted the gas
output into the native HP/UX format, but that program has not been kept
up to date. gdb
does not understand that native HP/UX format, so you must use gas
if you wish to use gdb.
m68k-sun
Sun 3. We do not provide
a configuration file to use the Sun FPA by default, because programs that
establish signal handlers for floating point traps inherently cannot work
with the FPA.
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See Installing
GNU CC on the Sun for information on installing GNU CC on Sun
systems.
m88k-*-svr3
Motorola m88k running the
AT&T/Unisoft/Motorola V.3 reference port. These systems tend to use
the Green Hills C, revision 1.8.5, as the standard C compiler. There are
apparently bugs in this compiler that result in object files differences
between stage 2 and stage 3. If this happens, make the stage 4 compiler
and compare it to the stage 3 compiler. If the stage 3 and stage 4 object
files are identical, this suggests you encountered a problem with the standard
C compiler; the stage 3 and 4 compilers may be usable.
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It is best, however, to use
an older version of GNU CC for bootstrapping if you have one.
m88k-*-dgux
Motorola m88k running DG/UX.
To build 88open BCS native or cross compilers on DG/UX, specify the configuration
name as m88k-*-dguxbcs
and build in the 88open BCS software development environment. To build
ELF native or cross compilers on DG/UX, specify m88k-*-dgux
and build in the DG/UX ELF development environment. You set the software
development environment by issuing sde-target
command and specifying either m88kbcs
or m88kdguxelf
as the operand.
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If you do not specify a configuration
name, configure
guesses the configuration based on the current software development environment.
m88k-tektronix-sysv3
Tektronix XD88 running UTekV
3.2e. Do not turn on optimization while building stage1 if you bootstrap
with the buggy Green Hills compiler. Also, The bundled LAI System V NFS
is buggy so if you build in an NFS mounted directory, start from a fresh
reboot, or avoid NFS all together. Otherwise you may have trouble getting
clean comparisons between stages.
mips-mips-bsd
MIPS machines running the
MIPS operating system in BSD mode. Its possible that some old versions
of the system lack the functions memcpy,
memcmp,
and memset.
If your system lacks these, you must remove or undo the definition of TARGET_MEM_FUNCTIONS
in mips-bsd.h.
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The MIPS C compiler needs to
be told to increase its table size for switch statements with the -Wf,-XNg1500
option in order to compile cp/parse.c.
If you use the -O2
optimization option, you also need to use -Olimit
3000. Both of
these options are automatically generated in the Makefile
that the shell script configure
builds. If you override the CC
make variable
and use the MIPS compilers, you may need to add -Wf,-XNg1500
-Olimit 3000.
mips-mips-riscos*
The MIPS C compiler needs
to be told to increase its table size for switch statements with the -Wf,-XNg1500
option in order to compile cp/parse.c.
If you use the -O2
optimization option, you also need to use -Olimit
3000. Both of
these options are automatically generated in the Makefile
that the shell script configure
builds. If you override the CC
make variable
and use the MIPS compilers, you may need to add -Wf,-XNg1500
-Olimit 3000.
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MIPS computers running RISC-OS
can support four different personalities: default, BSD 4.3, System V.3,
and System V.4 (older versions of RISC-OS dont support V.4). To configure
GCC for these platforms use the following configurations:
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mips-mips-riscosrev
Default configuration for
RISC-OS, revision rev.
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mips-mips-riscosrevbsd
BSD 4.3 configuration for
RISC-OS, revision rev.
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mips-mips-riscosrevsysv4
System V.4 configuration
for RISC-OS, revision rev.
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mips-mips-riscosrevsysv
System V.3 configuration
for RISC-OS, revision rev.
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The revision, rev
(mentioned in the previous paragraphs), is the revision of RISC-OS to use.
You must reconfigure GCC when going from a RISC-OS revision 4 to RISC-OS
revision 5. This has the effect of avoiding a linker bug (see Installation
Problems).
mips-sgi-*
In order to compile GCC
on an SGI running IRIX 4, the c.hdr.liboption
must be installed from the CD-ROM supplied from Silicon Graphics. This
is found on the second CD in release 4.0.1.
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In order to compile GCC on an
SGI running IRIX 5, the
compiler
dev.hdr subsystem
must be installed by the IDO CD-ROM, supplied by Silicon Graphics.
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make compare
may fail on version 5 IRIX unless you add -save-temps
to CFLAGS.
On these systems, the name of the assembler input file is stored in the
object file, and that makes comparison fail if it differs between the stage1
and stage2 compilations. The option, -save-temps,
forces a fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead of
a randomly chosen name in /tmp.
-
Do not add -save-temps
unless the comparisons fail without that option. If you do you -save-temps,
you will have to manually delete the .i
and .s
files after each series of compilations. The MIPS C compiler needs to be
told to increase its table size for switch statements with the -Wf,-XNg1500
option in order
to compile cp/parse.c.
If you use the -O2
optimization option, you also need to use -Olimit
3000. Both of
these options are automatically generated in the Makefile
that the shell script configure
builds. If you override the CC
make variable
and use the MIPS compilers, you may need to add -Wf,-XNg1500
-Olimit 3000.
On Irix version 4.0.5F, and perhaps on some other versions as well, there
is an assembler bug that reorders instructions incorrectly. To work around
it, specify mips-sgi-irix4loser
as the target configuration. This configuration inhibits assembler optimization.
In a compiler configured with target mips-sgi-irix4,
you can turn off assembler optimization by using the -noasmopt
option.
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This compiler option passes
the option -O0
to the assembler, to inhibit reordering. The -noasmopt
option can be useful for testing whether a problem is due to erroneous
assembler reordering.
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Even if a problem does not go
away with -noasmopt,
it may still be due to assembler reorderingperhaps GNU CC itself was miscompiled
as a result. To enable debugging under Irix 5, you must use GNU as
2.5 or later, and use the --with-gnu-as
configure option when configuring gcc.
GNU as
is distributed as part of the binutils
package.
mips-sony-sysv
Sony MIPS NEWS. This works
in NEWSOS 5.0.1, but not in 5.0.2 (which uses ELF instead of COFF). Support
for 5.0.2 will probably be provided soon by volunteers. In particular,
the linker does not like the code generated by GCC when shared libraries
are linked in.
ns32k-encore
Encore NS32000 system. Encore
systems are supported only under BSD.
ns32k-*-genix
National Semiconductor NS32000
system. Genix has bugs in alloca
and malloc;
you must get the compiled versions of these from GNU Emacs.
ns32k-sequent
Go to the Berkeley universe
before compiling. In addition, you probably need to create a file named
string.h
containing just one line:
#include <strings.h>
ns32k-utek
UTEK NS32000 system (merlin).
The C compiler that comes with this system cannot compile GNU CC; contact
tektronix!reed!mason
to get binaries of GNU CC for bootstrapping.
romp-*-aos
romp-*-mach
The only operating systems
supported for the IBM RT PC are AOS and MACH. GNU CC does not support AIX
running on the RT.
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We recommend you compile GNU
CC with an earlier version of itself; if you compile GNU CC with hc,
the Metaware compiler, it will work, but you will get mismatches between
the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers in various files. These errors are minor
differences in some floating-point constants and can be safely ignored;
the stage 3 compiler is correct.
rs6000-*-aix
powerpc-*-aix
Various early versions of
each release of the IBM XLC compiler will not bootstrap GNU CC. Symptoms
include differences between the stage2 and stage3 object files, and errors
when compiling libgcc.a
or enquire.
Known problematic releases include: xlc-1.2.1.8, xlc-1.3.0.0 (distributed
with AIX 3.2.5), and xlc-1.3.0.19. Both xlc-1.2.1.28 and xlc-1.3.0.24 (PTF
432238) are known to produce working versions of GNU CC, but most other
recent releases correctly bootstrap GNU CC. Also, releases of AIX prior
to AIX 3.2.4 include a version of the IBM assembler which does not accept
debugging directives: assembler updates are available as PTFs. Also, if
you are using AIX 3.2.5 or greater and the GNU assembler, you must have
a version modified after October 16, 1995 in order for the GNU C compiler
to build.
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See the file README.RS6000
for more details on of these problems.
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GNU CC does not yet support
all 64-bit PowerPC instructions.
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Objective C does not work on
this architecture because it makes assumptions that are incompatible with
the calling conventions. AIX on the RS/6000 provides support (NLS) for
environments outside of the United States. Compilers and assemblers use
NLS to support locale-specific representations of various objects including
floating-point numbers (.
vs ,
for separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
the library linked with GNU CC does not produce the same floating-point
formats that the assembler accepts. If you have this problem, set the LANG
environment variable to C
or En_US.
Due to changes in the way that GNU CC invokes the binder (linker)
for AIX 4.1, you may now receive warnings of duplicate symbols from the
link step that were not reported before. The assembly files generated by
GNU CC for AIX have always included multiple symbol definitions for certain
global variable and function declarations in the original program. The
warnings should not prevent the linker from producing a correct library
or runnable executable. By default, AIX 4.1 produces code that can be used
on either Power or PowerPC processors. You can specify a default version
for the -mcpu=
cpu_type
switch by using the configure option, with-cpu-
cpu_type.
powerpc-*-elf
powerpc-*-sysv4
PowerPC system in big endian
mode, running System V.4. You can specify a default version for the -mcpu=cpu_type
switch using the option, --with-cpu-
cpu_type.
powerpc-*-linux-gnu
PowerPC system in big endian
mode, running the Linux-based GNU system. You can specify a default version
for the -mcpu=cpu_type
switch using the option, --with-cpu-
cpu_type.
powerpc-*-eabiaix
Embedded PowerPC system
in big endian mode with -mcall-aix
selected as the default. You can specify a default version for the -mcpu=
cpu_type
switch by using the configure option, --with-cpu-
cpu_type.
powerpc-*-eabisim
Embedded PowerPC system
in big endian mode for use in running under the PSIM simulator. You can
specify a default version for the -mcpu=
cpu_type
switch by using the configure option, --with-cpu-
cpu_type.
powerpc-*-eabi
Embedded PowerPC system
in big endian mode. You can specify a default version for the -mcpu=cpu_type
switch by using the configure option,--with-cpu-cpu_type.
powerpcle-*-elf
powerpcle-*-sysv4
PowerPC system in little
endian mode, running System V.4. You can specify a default version for
the -mcpu=cpu_type
switch using the option, --with-cpu-
cpu_type.
powerpcle-*-solaris2*
PowerPC system in little
endian mode for use in running Solaris 2.5.1 or higher.
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You can specify a default version
for the -mcpu=
cpu_type
switch by using the configure option, --with-cpu-
cpu_type.
Beta versions of the Sun 4.0 compiler do not seem to be able to build GNU
CC correctly. There are also problems with the host assembler and linker
that are fixed by using the GNU versions of these tools.
powerpcle-*-eabi
Embedded PowerPC system
in little endian mode. You can specify a default version for the -mcpu=
cpu_type
switch by using the option, with-cpu-
cpu_type.
powerpcle-*-winnt
powerpcle-*-pe
PowerPC system in little
endian mode running Windows NT. You can specify a default version for the
-mcpu=
cpu_type
switch by using the configure option, with-cpu-
cpu_type.
vax-dec-ultrix
Dont try compiling with
Vax C (vcc). It produces incorrect code in some cases (for example, when
alloca
is used).
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Meanwhile, compiling cp/parse.c
with pcc
does not work because of an internal table size limitation in that compiler.
To avoid this problem, compile just the GNU C compiler first, and use it
to recompile building all the languages that you want to run.
sparc-sun-*
sparc64-sun-*
vax-dec-vms
we32k-*-*
These computers are also
known as the 3b2, 3b5, 3b20 and other similar names. (However, the 3b1
is actually a 68000.) Dont use -g
when compiling with the systems compiler. The systems linker seems to
be unable to handle such a large program with debugging information.
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The systems compiler runs out
of capacity when compiling stmt.c
in GNU CC. You can work around this by building cpp
in GNU CC first, then use that instead of the systems preprocessor with
the systems C compiler to compile stmt.c.
Use the following examples input.
mv /lib/cpp /lib/cpp.att
cp cpp /lib/cpp.gnu
echo /lib/cpp.gnu -traditional ${1+$@} > /lib/cpp
chmod +x /lib/cpp
The systems compiler produces
bad code for some of the GNU CC optimization files. So you must build the
stage 2 compiler without optimization. Then build a stage 3 compiler with
optimization. That executable should work. Use the following.
make LANGUAGES=c CC=stage1/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage1/ -g"
make stage2
make CC=stage2/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage2/ -g -O"
You may need to raise the ULIMIT
setting to build a C++ compiler, as the file cc1plus
is larger than one megabyte.
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