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1.2. Getting gcc/g++ for the HP Precision Architecture

If you use the HP Precision Architecture (HP-9000/7xx and HP-9000/8xx) and you want to use debugging, you'll need to grab a special version of GAS from the University of Utah, site jaguar.cs.utah.edu. Look in the "/dist" directory for gas-2.2.u4. A non-standard debug format is used, since until recently HP considered their debug format a trade secret. NEWS FLASH: thanks to the work of lots of good folks both inside and outside HP, the company has seen the error of its ways and has now released the required information. The team at the University of Utah should soon have code that understands the native HP format. For now, the GNU debugger, GDB, understands the debug format produced by this version of GAS, but not the format produced by HP's compilers.

Some enhancements for the HP that haven't been integrated back into the official GCC are available from the same site in version gcc-2.5.8.u5. The site also has GDB (4.12.u1), GAS (2.2.u4), and libg++ (2.5.2.u3).

I recommend that HP users use the Utah versions of the tools (see above). HP GNU users can also find useful stuff on the site geod.emr.ca in the /pub/GNU-HP directory.