On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2012-06-07 03:01, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Mark Wickens wrote: ... This is also mildly interesting: http://netbsd0.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/retrocomputing-with-vamp-stack-vax.ht… Always good to see a VAXstation being put to good use. Strange that gcc has so much trouble for VAX. I thought that had gotten a fair amount of care& feeding lately. Sad to say, but gcc really stinks... And the amount of time it needs to compile even something trivial is close to eternity. :-( pdp11, that's a different story, though I do try to do some more bits from time to time... You mean the gcc PDP-11 backend? Are you mad? :-) Johnny Maybe so, but working on its has been a good learning experience. It actually helped me doing "real work" on gcc. paul