carsten@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Carsten Weise) (04/29/91)
Hello again, maybe you remember that I mailed to this newsgroup about two weeks again. We here at the Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik I _were_ thinking of porting G++ to the transputer (we have a 64-transputer-system from Parsytec, running under Helios). I received several mails, and wanted to answer all these people who mailed me, but then... we had a major reconfiguration of our network here, and they forgot to save /usr/spool/mail to tape, and so all my saved mails are gone to /dev/null. I'd appreciate that if all those who mailed me could kindly send me mail again, so I could at least get in contact with them. Especially those who ported compilers to transputers (not G++) and those who knew of people trying to port compilers (some said, there even should be projects working on G++ !). I'll summarize... And here a short summary from what is left in my mind: Several people quoted Richard Stallman: "Don't try." The obvious reason for this is that the transputer concept of a stack machine is too far away from a register machine assumed by RTL. This is our worst fears come true, and we are thinking of something different now. But some people said there are several groups working on it as well -- instead of the quote above. I think these groups were somewhere in France, and in the U.K., but I think nobody from these groups mailed me, only people who knew somebody who knew (not sure of this...) Many proposed to try AT&T C++. Surely a good idea, but we were thinking of a bit hacking around in the code, and at the moment I'm not able to find out if the At&T license allows that. Just porting it to a new hardware is possible -- at least with our license here. At least one group has already done that. I think they're in Denmark. The person who mailed me said it was easy. Well - that's all I remember for now. Thank you for all you mailed me, and I'd be greatful if you all could again send me some mail. Remember, I don't follow newsgroups regularly, so send e-mail to my adress below. Carsten when routine bites heard, and ambitions are low... Carsten@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de