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                      7: Julian F. Reschke, 19. Oktober 1992
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                      9: email: [email protected]
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                     15: (1) Special files
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                     19: First of all, you need a special osbind.h. This is because Pure's own 
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                     21: version differs in some small details from the GCC header files. You 
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                     23: can't use Pure's tos.h, either, because in its latest versions it already 
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                     25: defines some of MiNT's data structures. You can either leave osbind.h in 
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                     27: the MiNT source directory, or copy it to your PureC include folder. If you 
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                     29: are using the MiNT library, all should work fine without this file.
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                     33: This is all what's needed. You can either use the command line versions 
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                     35: of PureC, or you can use the PureC shell. I am compiling MiNT with GNU 
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                     37: make (latest version at atari.archive.umich.edu should work fine) and a 
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                     39: self-made 'cc' command, that I've specially written for the PureC command 
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                     41: line versions (see makefile.pcc). This tool is still being tested, and 
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                     43: I've not yet decided how to distribute it. If you are interested, write to 
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                     45: me.
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                     49: If you're going to use the PureC shell, you'll have to 'manually' 
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                     51: translate the .spp files to the PASM syntax using asmtrans.ttp. The 
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                     57: asmtrans -purec -o outfile.s outfile.spp
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                     61: genmagic.ttp is needed to create the file magic.i, which in turn is 
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                     63: included by the .spp files.
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                     69: (2) Things to do
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                     73: So far, I've made no attempt to translate asmtrans with PureC. Try it 
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                     75: yourself (you'll need alloca; might work with the MiNT library version 
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                     77: for PureC) or compile them with gcc.
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                     83: (3) Caveats
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                     87: This is a preliminary 'port'. It seems to work fine on my machine, but 
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                     89: this guarantees nothing:
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                     93: There's still a conflict in the way PureC saves registers with what MiNT 
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                     95: file system drivers or device drivers expect. That's why minix.xfs will 
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                     97: bomb. There are two solutions: change it in the kernel, or change PureC. 
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                     99: Both are being currently considered. Note that the same problem will 
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                    101: arise if you try to write drivers with PureC.
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