Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C4mne:_ADE=2FGG_and_APUS?=

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:37:37PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:47:29AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > > > That's probably possible but I wouldn't recommend it. First of all, it would take forever to compile (even ppc hosted gcc is slow under amigaos) and second you run the risk of all sorts of trouble. Why do you even want to try if you've got linux/ppc running?
> > > 
> > > for fun of course! :-)  I'd would just be a dual convenience:   
> > > 
> > > One single ARexx script to perform 'kernel on demand' service
> > > I was thinking of.
> > 
> > Hello alan, ...
> > 
> > if you are on the fun side of things, ... i longly thought that since the
> > ppc-gcc stuff compiled elf binaries, contrary to the warpup stuff, it would be
> > possible to compile an kenrel by the ppc compiler under amigaos. I think the
> 
> It depends... m68k-cbm-amigados-gcc generates a.out binaries, just like
> m68k-linuxaout-gcc (m68k-cbm-amigados-ld takes care of creating AmigaOS `hunk'
> executables. But that doesn't mean you can use m68k-linuxaout-gcc to compile
> AmigaOS programs. Apparently they had to change gcc to allow for the A6
> register to be used as the library base register for AmigaOS, while the plain
> gcc insists on using A6 as the frame pointer (no, -no-frame-pointer didn't help
> last time I tried).
> 
> A similar problem may exist with APUS.

I think toi remember that :

file ppcboot_pup

says it is a ppc elf binary.

But then maybe they have changed since the warpup guys don't liked elf, ...

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER