Remaining host configuration fragments

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Paul Koning wrote:

> Perhaps that's because the backend in its current state doesn't
> actually work.  I've been tinkering with it (inspired by the new pdp11
> GAS support).  It's getting closer.

It certainly didn't work before 2.95 (the first release with some of my
fixes to it in) since before those fixes it was outputting constants in
decimal, and AFAIK all PDP-11 assemblers expect constants in octal.  (Nor
did the assembler syntax then correspond to what the 2.11BSD assembler
expects.)  I made it at least produce passable output that could be
assembled under 2.11BSD, but I'd expect that it still didn't work at all
well.

> If no one else cares, I can certainly treat it as a private amusement
> and do nothing further with it, but if I make decent progress I'm
> certainly willing to contribute it.

I'd be glad to see further fixes to make it actually work properly go into
GCC.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk