gge@CXA.DARESBURY.AC.UK ("G. J. Baker") (03/07/90)
In a recent posting Eliot Moss mentioned a MODULA 3? compiler:
Eliot,
What machines are you planning to make this compiler available on? I
currently use FTL MODULA 2 on my ATARI ST and would be very interested in a
MODULA 3 compiler for that machine
Regards
Gareth J.Baker
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| Phone +44 925 603586moss@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) (03/10/90)
Well, you shouldn't hold your breath for any release -- I'd predict 6 to 12 months before we can go beta. But, to answer your question, initial target is the VAX, with the DECStation close behind. Sun equipment is also a possibility. We don't have plans to do anything beyond that ourselves, though (being FSF based stuff) source will be available for others to do compiler ports. Also, we hope that the additional back end requirements will be such that little work would be needed beyond what gcc requires (i.e., once you've got the latest gcc up on a specific configuration, there shold be little additional work required to get Modula-3 up). Details are quite fuzzy on that because we really don't know what back end stuff we'll be doing which will not be a standard part of gcc 2.x (which is expected to add nested functions and some support for exception handling, for example). [Don't hassle RMS about gcc 2.x!] Does that help you figure out what's going on? Eliot -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu