I'd love to port the D gcc compiler to BeOS for intel, but unfortunately BeOS uses gcc2.95. Because the whole OS is C++ based, gcc3.x is a pointless thing to have (and no one has really attempted to get it working for the OS), and so gcc2.95 is what we're stuck at. Just to put me out of my misery, how completely impossible would a 2.95 port be?

TIA

Matt

me wrote:
> I'd love to port the D gcc compiler to BeOS for intel, but unfortunately
> BeOS uses gcc2.95. Because the whole OS is C++ based, gcc3.x is a pointless
> thing to have (and no one has really attempted to get it working for the
> OS), and so gcc2.95 is what we're stuck at. Just to put me out of my misery,
> how completely impossible would a 2.95 port be?

Certainly not impossible, but it would probably require coding a new glue layer from scratch, as the API changed some in-between.

So, it'd be about as much work as the 3.x port needed. :)

 -- andy