Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: dan@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Denis Nicole)
Subject: Re: SPOC for DOS ?
Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Date: 24 Aug 94 23:27:51 GMT
Message-ID: <dan.777770871@orca>

In <177@autro1.UUCP> teig@autro1.UUCP (Oyvind Teig) writes:

>SPOC - Status

>What is the status of Southampton Portable Occam Compiler
>with resepect to using PC as a platform. DOS is good,
>MS-Windows is better.
SPOC should work with any ANSI C compiler; the debugging feature
requires gdb and the 64bit ints require long long support, eg from gcc.

I hope to include appropriate compiled binaries for DOS and Windows (and
maybe NT and OS2) with the next SPOC release; I am currently deciding
between gcc versions for the PC:
* djgpp is best known, has lots of libraries, and has 387 emulation under
  DOS, but gdb seems not to breakpoint properly under windows. 
* emx (with rsx) seems to offer full gdb support, but 387 emulation only
  under DPMI (windows). It also offers some support for windows programming.
 
>And also, I have heard that Macro Emacs 3.12 is a folding
>editor for MS-Windows. (Ref. Denis Nicole). Is this at HENSA?
There are several versions (worked on by people at INMOS, Kent and
Southampton) of folding microemacs 3.10.  These are stable under DOS and
SUNOS and run in a windows DOS box.  Some (but not mine yet) are at Hensa.
The SUNOS versions recognise an xterm mouse.

microemacs 3.12 will run as a full windows application, but does not yet
have folding features---I've looked at this, but it's way down on my
priorities.

Denis Nicole.

