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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
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Subject: Re: native gcc for vxworks
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Mike Stump wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:52 PM, Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
>> I trust the small here is meant with a sense of irony, since this would
>> in practice be many person years of work I would guess.
> 
> 
> No, it isn't that hard, probably take a few weeks.
> 
> cygwin is a lot of work, not because of gcc, but because of the 1000s of 
> other software packages it compiles.

Well you are far more optimistic than I would be. After all even getting
VxWorks to be posix compatible is a major amount of work. Gteting a full
unix environment seems much harder to me.