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Can I use the GNU C compiler in place of the hard-to-find development set?

April 26, 2017compiler Development GNU hard-to-find

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Can I use the GNU C compiler in place of the hard-to-find development set?

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In theory, anyway, most of what you need from the Development Set can be obtained elsewhere. There are at least five things that you need to do C programming on the UNIX PC: o a C compiler Use GCC (binary available in languages/gcc-gas.tar.Z on OSU-CIS) o an assembler Use GAS (binary available in languages/gcc-gas.tar.Z on OSU-CIS) o a linker/loader (/bin/ld) This is included in the Foundation Set. o system header files Alex Crain (alex@umbc3.umbc.edu) has created a set of ANSI header files which appeared in Volume 1, Issue 49 of comp.sources.3b1, with one patch. o libraries This is the tough one. There are a bunch of libraries that come the Development Set which would be difficult to replace. One of the most important (/lib/libc.a) is on the Encryption Set disks in the Foundation Set. Supposedly FIXDISK2.0 contains one or more updated libraries. The network and OSU remain good sources for strings, POSIX, dirent, etc. libraries. Of course, there are other libraries like /lib/libm.a (ma