[TUHS] Bruce Evans 386 Minix patches & compiler source

[Jason Stevens via TUHS]

Sure here is some:

/local/bin/ld
/local/bin/as
/local/bin/sc
/usr/local/lib/i86/crtso.o
/usr/local/lib/i386/crtso.o 

pre-defined macros seem to be

__LONG_BIG_ENDIAN__
__FIRST_ARG_IN_AX__
__CALLER_SAVES__
__AS386_16__
__AS386_32__

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey
To: Jason Stevens
Cc: The UNIX Heritage Society
Sent: 9/9/25 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Bruce Evans 386 Minix patches & compiler source

On Monday,  8 September 2025 at 11:27:22 +0100, The UNIX Heritage
Society wrote:
> Hi all!
> It's been quite a while since I was messing with Minix386 back in the
days
> when Bruce Evans released a set of patches to bring 386 support.
> I'm pretty sure over on oldlinux.org the patch set exists, but I can
only
> find the one set of binaries of his 386 toolchain.
> I know it eventually evolved into the bin86 toolchain that Linus would
go on
> to use to create real mode boot code, but I don't know if any of the
source
> code to his 1991/1992 386 toolchain ever got published?

I received Bruce's computers when he died, and I briefly looked into
some of the data on the disks.  If you can give me some search strings
for file names, I can take a look and possibly find something.

Greg
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