From: brettk AT compusmart DOT ab DOT ca (Brett Kosinski)
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Subject: Re: GCC on an 80286
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Hans Ecke <ecke AT coffee DOT geophysik DOT tu-freiberg DOT de> wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I`m programming in Pascal and C aplications to aid in measuring various
>data. I would _really_ like to use GCC and GPC as the development
>plattform but I have one big problem : The computers which do the
>measurement are mostly 80286. So my question is : is there an
>implementation of GCC for the 80286? Crosscompiling? Since there are
>people working on Linux for the 8086 it should be possible somehow. The OS
>is plain MS-DOS 4.0+.

Don't take this as gospel :) but AFAIK, there is no GCC for anything <
80386.  Why?  Because GCC is designed to write code for flat memory
protected mode, something only 386+ machines can do.  ELKS, which is what
you are referring to WRT Linux is an 8086 port of Linux, however, it has a
long way to go before it can be considered usable (at least, that is the
last I'd heard about it).  I'm not sure what compiler they are using to
create ELKS, but even if it was a patched GCC, it wouldn't be designed to
create dos .EXE's.  Sorry.

BTW, this is just MO, if I'm wrong feel free to say so, I'd love to hear it.
:)

Brett.