ALPHA release of gcc-t800


gcc-t800 is yet another port of GNU C Compiler to Inmos transputer
family.  Being a derivative of GCC, it is distributed under the GNU
General Public License.

This ALPHA release is available as a patch against the "official" GCC
2.7.2 distribution (gcc-2.7.2.tar.gz), which is available from
prep.ai.mit.edu and its numerous mirrors.  This patch allows one to
build a cross compiler which runs on a host capable of running GCC in
general and produces transputer assembly language output.  The patch
is available from <ftp://ftp.botik.ru/pub/local/gcc-t800/>.

In order to actually get the compiler to produce executables, you also
need a cross-assembler and linker.  One package including those is
TTOOLS; check <http://www.botik.ru/~sizif/ttools/>, or
<ftp://ftp.botik.ru/pub/local/ttools>.

You can also find gcc-t800 and TTOOLS at the mirror in UK -- thanks to
Dave Beckett, <D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk>:
ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/parallel/transputer/software/compilers/gcc/pereslavl/
http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/transputer/software/compilers/gcc/pereslavl/

Unfortunately, (gcc-t800 + TTOOLS) still are NOT a plug-and-play
development environment.  I have not ported any libraries.  Floating
point works only on transputers with FP unit (t800,t805,t9000) --
there is no FPU emulation library yet.  The compiler still lacks
debugging support, and there is no debugger yet (although one of our
people thinks about porting GDB).

Nonetheless, I hope you will be able to make good use of it.

Good luck!


Yury Shevchuk
<sizif@botik.ru>