NEWS
- 2003-04-18
- Many small enhancements and bug fixes. Most notably, support for the long long type has been added. So far only the "71-bit" double-precision integer format supported in hardware is used, but in the future 72 bits of precision may be an option.
- 2002-09-13
- There has been a slight change in the calling convention to make code compiled with a frame pointer more easy to debug. Now the frame pointer points to the word directly after the return address, and that word contains the previously active frame pointer. This means that both the return address and the previous frame pointer is easily available. This version has the changes.
- 2002-09-06
- Anders "ragge" Magnusson has contributed code to support the NetBSD/pdp10 port.
- 2002-06-12
- The compiler now has two users.
- 2002-06-12
- This version should be quite good, in case someone would like to give it a try.
- 2002-04-12
- Testsuite failures: 260.
- 2002-03-23
- Testsuite failures: 353.
- 2002-02-07
- Testsuite failures: 1083. Now assembling, linking, and executing in KLH10. The whole thing took over 15 hours.
- 2001-11-01
- With the help of a maze of twisty little scripts connecting to a PDP-10 through TELNET and FTP, the GCC testsuite can now assemble, link, and run test cases in TOPS-20. These scripts will replace the dummy scripts used earlier. A minimal C library has been written to run the tests.
- 2001-10-09
- Testsuite failures are down to 25. Still using dummy scripts.
- 2001-07-23
- A list of patches submitted to the GCC team.
- 2001-07-04
- Testsuite failures are down to 119. Still using dummy scripts.
- 2001-06-21
- Here is the result of running the GCC testsuite. There's a summary at the end: 401 failures out of over 15000 test cases. However, due to a lack of a full cross-development environment, the assembler, linker and resulting executable are dummy scripts that always succeed.
- 2001-03-26
- Here is the result of running a small testsuite to test GCC's generation of PDP-10 instructions.
- 2001-02-20
- GCC implements most of the PDP-10 instruction set, as this comment from the machine description file shows.
- 2001-01-23
- First program compiled with GCC and assembled with MACRO on a PDP-10.
- 2001-01-18
- Slashdot article.
- 2001-01-17
- Here's a proposed ABI.
- 2001-01-10
- The project has started.
- 2000-11-01
- An agreement has been signed to port the GNU C compiler, assembler and debugger to PDP-10 and TOPS-20. The project will start in January. (more)
DOWNLOAD
Selected versions of the GCC port can be downloaded here. In general, later versions are better, but not always.
CONTACT
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REFERENCE MATERIAL
- PDP-10 instruction set, (from ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/pdp-10/pdp-10.html)
- PDP-10 opcodes, (from http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/opcodes.html)
- DECsystem-10/DECSYSTEM-20 Processor Reference Manual, (from http://www.36bit.org/dec/manual/ad-h391a-t1.pdf)
- PDP-6 Arithmetic Processor 166 Instruction Manual, (from http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/tk/pdp6/pdp6-hardware-manual.ps)
- Some differences between the 166 and the KA10 processors.
- kcc, originally Kok Chen's PDP-10 C compiler, later rewritten by Ken Harrenstien.
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