Re: Re: Slightly off-topic: development machine for z/OS wanted

---In [email protected], <joemonk64@...> wrote :

> GCC (latest version) already has a z/os target (s390x) ...

That only targets the ASCII z/Linux, not the
EBCDIC z/OS USS.

> What Paul has is an S/370 target,

The target is S/390 as well as S/370, which
means I can produce and run 31-bit programs
under z/OS too.

> an architecture that no longer exists (it is only
> available on Hercules). He has added limited
> 31-bit support in what he calls a "380" architecture.

S/380 is just one 31-bit platform that is
supported. You are free to do all your
work on z/OS instead.

> Whatever you want to port, you should be able
> to using the s390x target on your PC, then using
> FTP to upload to the target z/series and run the
> binder to make it a load module.

The s390x produces ELF code, and ASCII too,
which I don't think will run on USS.

i370 is the only target that exercises the
EBCDIC capabilities in GCC, which was formally
added in the GCC 3.4 series.

BFN. Paul.