getting started on aux (editor, gcc, gdb)

[John Coolidge]

mss+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Sherman) writes:
>Is there an emacs available for AU/X? Or would I
>have to port gun-emacs myself? I've seen the emacs distribution on
>apple.com, but that requires completely building it -- see later about
>gcc/pcc.

The emacs on apple.com is (almost) completely ported to A/UX. The
only problem I've seen is that the emacsclient program doesn't
work. Other than that, it seems to do quite well.

>While I have your
>attention, anyone know of a port of gdb to AU/X 1.1.1
>that will run on a Mac IIci?

Several people are working on it, I think, but nothing's out yet.

>I do not know the story of the gcc on apple.com. I
>assume that is only the actual compiler and not a combination of
>preprocessor, compiler, optimizer and assembler.

The gcc on apple.com includes (last I checked, anyway) the entire
package: preprocessor, compiler, and optimizer. By default it uses
the A/UX assembler, which is powerful enough to handle assembling
anything gcc's thrown it in my experience (including gcc itself,
X11R4, g++, emacs, and various other large packages). It does
occasional drop branch optimizations on the floor, but that doesn't
actually break anything and I doubt they mean much at all in terms
of performance, especially given the performance win gcc turns out
to be. Gcc produces very good optimized code (much better than A/UX's
cc). It's also not subject to the table-size bogosities of A/UX's cc.

In other words: get it!

--John

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