[comp.sys.acorn] Modula 2

angelo@i41s12.ira.uka.de (Angelo Schneider Betr.Prechelt) (04/29/91)

Hi everybody,

does anybody know anything about a Modula 2 Compiler?
Is one available or in work? NOT for RiscIx! For RiscOs!

thanx, Angelo.

(Please don't ask why I need MODULA 2! I NEED IT!)

alm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Alexander L McLintock) (04/30/91)

A year ago, someone in a Modula 2 company sent me some info on a M2 compiler
for RiscIX under developement. The RiscOs one was also under-developement, 
but in an earlier stage. I shall write/email them to see what their
status is. 

The alternative is to get a job with Acorn, (who have a M2 compiler !), 

(Anyone want to give me a summer job? very low pay accepted if interesting :-)

Someone will probably say that Acorn's compiler doesn't exist. Just like
RiscOs 3 doesn't exist.

Alex (I may be talking b****x) MC


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bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn) (05/01/91)

Angelo and Alex,

  Speaking as an employee, not a spokesman, I can assure you that there
isn't a Modula2 compiler in use inside Acorn, either for RISC iX or RISC OS.

  Several years ago (in the days of the 16032) there was a Modula2 compiler
which Mick Jordan of the 'Puter Lab and later ARC (Acorn Research Center
(Palo Alto)) ported from the original ETH compiler (via a VAX
implementation).  It was this compiler that Panos was written in but I don't
think that it was even released for the 16032 as part of Panos even though
we were using it internally.  This was because it wasn't quite stable enough
to be a product, but was acceptable internally because the support was
instant.

  This compiler was then ported and enhanced (by Mick, Trevor Morris, and
others) to Acorn Extended Modula2 (AEM2) as part of early experimental work
on ARM based technology (the ARX project).  All that technology went off to
Olivetti when they took over / bought out ARC.

  As far as I am aware Acorn no longer has any Mod2 technology.  Sorry :-).

  Bruce.

Disclaimer: I talk rubbish, who'd want to claim responsibility for it!

Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans) (05/02/91)

bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn) writes:

>  Speaking as an employee, not a spokesman, I can assure you that there
>isn't a Modula2 compiler in use inside Acorn, either for RISC iX or RISC OS.

I may have posted this info before, but the Amsterdam Compiler Kit has an m2
compiler plus a RiscOs backend (which was developed over here). We are
planning to make it available under RiscIx sometime during the summer.

The backend is on the Newcastle info server. So if you've got ACK, you may
want to look at it. It's currently only a cross-compilation facility (ACK
won't run under RiscOs itself).

Albert


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