Getting gcc/g++ for the HP Precision Architecture
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   If you use the HP Precision Architecture (HP-9000/7xx and
HP-9000/8xx) and you want to use debugging, you'll need to use the GNU
assembler, GAS (version 2.3 or later).  If you build from source, you
must tell the configure program that you are using GAS or you won't get
debugging support.  A non-standard debug format is used, since until
recently HP considered their debug format a trade secret.  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 that did the gcc port
now has code that understands the native HP format.

   Some enhancements for the HP that haven't been integrated back into
the official GCC are available from the University of Utah, site
jaguar.cs.utah.edu.  You can retrieve sources and prebuilt binaries for
GCC, GDB, binutils,and libg++; see the directory `/dist'.

   The libg++ version is actually the same as the FSF 2.6.  The Utah
version of GDB can now understand both the GCC and HP C compiler debug
formats, so it is no longer necessary to have two different GDB
versions.

   I recommend that HP users use the Utah versions of the tools (see
above), though at this point the standard FSF versions will work well.

   HP GNU users can also find useful stuff on the site geod.emr.ca in
the `/pub/UNIX/GNU-HP' directory.

   Jeff Law is leaving the University of Utah, so the Utah prebuilt
binaries may be discontinued.