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> the first version of GCC supporting the x86 CPU I have to say, that gives me a funny sort of feeling. The linked 0.9 tarball appears to support the Motorola
by yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> the first version of GCC supporting the x86 CPU
I have to say, that gives me a funny sort of feeling. The linked 0.9 tarball appears to support the Motorola 68000 and Vax, and https://gcc.gnu.org/backends.html https://gcc.gnu.org/backends.html seems to indicate that both are still supported, which is kind of beautiful (though there's a note on vax that "A hardware implementation is not currently being manufactured":P). Just... disconcerting to imagine a world before gcc supported x86.
- kjs3 3y agoThere's a pretty active retro community around the VAX arch, and a really decent emulator in SIMH, so the compiler still gets some love. The 68k arch is still in production, so no reason not to support it. LLVM added 68k support in the last couple of years.