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On 2016-06-25, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> So you want to be able to use your regular compilers. Of course the |
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> compilers were written assuming that they will never run on or target |
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> any operating system that doesn't work Just Like Unix. |
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I know I shouldn't respond, but I just can't help it... |
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This is, of course, complete bollocks. |
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Many people (myself included) use GCC every day for targets that don't |
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run Unix (or anything like it). I use GCC for a number of RTOSes |
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(none of which work at all like Unix). I also use GCC for projects |
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with no OS at all. Some of them have only few hundred bytes of RAM and |
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maybe a dozen KB of ROM. Trust me, those systems don't work "Just |
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Like Unix". |
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I use Linux as my development host (my preference), but I suspect I'm |
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in a minority. I would guess that most people using GCC for either |
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"bare metal" or RTOS development use Windows as the host environment. |
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There are also plenty of people who use GCC on MS Windows hosts |
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targeting MS Windows. Again, you can trust me that Windows does not |
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work "Just Like Unix". |
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Alan's world-view seems to be that anything Alan has never done is |
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both stupid and impossible. |
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If it turns out somebody else _has_ done it, then it's just stupid. |
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Grant |