Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 18:55:09 -0600
From: rcharif AT math DOT utexas DOT edu (Rami El Charif)
Posted-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 18:55:09 -0600
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Porting GCC 2.3.3
Reply-To: rcharif AT math DOT utexas DOT edu

I was thinking about a solution to use gcc 2.3.3 on a 8.3 dos file
system. I think the solution I found is more of a hack than a real
solution, but it might let us have a usable version of gcc 2.3.3.

The idea is to intercept the "creat" and "open" calls either in the
library or in go32 so that they generate unique file names for the
TMPDIR. There will be need to keep a corespondance table between the
long file names and the generated ones (Actually the idea could be
expanded to handle long file names in a sort of database, but that's
another story).

I look forward to any comments. But I must point out that I have very
little time to take care of that.

Rami El Charif