GCC 1.27 was released in 1988 and is the first version of GCC supporting the x86 CPU. I thought it would be fun to make it work on my desktop computer. Mikhail Maltsev wrote a great blog post about this a while back “Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system”. I used Mikhail’s work as a starting point, but I built on a 64-bit Ubuntu system so I needed to update paths and as/ld o