Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 21:59:43 GMT
From: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, jrivera AT hume DOT den DOT mmc DOT com
Subject: Re:  Gnu Pascal with DJGPP
Status: O

As far as using a sparc as a cross compile environment I can tell from
my own experience that I'm doing so in a similar manner for a while
on an SCO UN*X system (i386). Before I was doing that I did what you want
to do on a DecStation 5200 (Ultrix) but I had strange things happening
in the area of float doubles when passed to functions. Maybe it had been
a problem of number representation or byte/word swapping - I dunno.
I abandonded trying to use the mips architecture a a cross development
base and turned to an architecture which is code compatible (386).

I'm compiling large FORTRAN programs (using f2c - AT&T) and link them finally
on the PC. I have not managed to put the loading phase to the UNIX side
though it would be possible. I also have a copy of DJGPP include files
on the unix side and my gcc crosscompiler is hacked so that the prefixes
point to the correct include directories. Works nicely!

--Chris