dprrhb@inetg1.ARCO.COM (Reginald H. Beardsley) (05/02/91)
A few questions about compilers for Minix.
1) When will the ANSI C ACK compiler become available from Unipress etc?
2) Will it be fully ANSI compliant (eg. floating point)?
3) Has anyone attempted to port f2c from the anonymous ftp directories on
research.att.com to any small model (64+64) system? (For those who don't
know about f2c, it is a FORTRAN to C converter which was used to
implement the original f77 compiler for version 7. The one available
for ftp is much more recent, so I don't know if it is still compatible
with small machines.)
4) Is it possible to add floating point to the current ACK compiler without
having the ACK sources? (I plan to buy the ACK compiler source from
Unipress, but am stalling because of the coming ANSI version)
E-mail preferred. Thanks all.
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Internet: dprrhb@arco.com Christoph van Wuellen <HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> (05/03/91)
ACK is a full-fledged floating point compiler, only some library functions are missing and the 'dumb' cg program cannot handle FP constants. Both problems can be solved without access to the ACK sources and without modifying the compiler itself, and there has been a posting which contains the material. I always include the fpp conversion step when compiling with ACK because it is so fast comparing to the other parts that it does not count, thus no extra -f flag to cc. C.v.W.