Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:11:18 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Petrus <petrus4@tpg.com.au> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit Message-ID: <20070227101118.GD844@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <000a01c75a4f$3ee32be0$3c9cf03c@owner704ff21d8> References: <000a01c75a4f$3ee32be0$3c9cf03c@owner704ff21d8>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2007-Feb-27 20:11:19 +1100, Petrus <petrus4@tpg.com.au> wrote: >I was looking for alternate compilers to GCC a couple of days ago, and >ended up finding the Amsterdam Compiler Kit. >(http://sourceforge.net/projects/tack/) I recall this from when I was playing with minix. >I adamantly hope that this is something that FreeBSD could eventually use. Whilst there is some activity on it, the CVS repository contains a worryingly large number of files that apparently haven't been touched in more than a decade (some haven't been touched in 25 years). Based on a quick rummage around the repository, it doesn't appear to support any current-generation CPUs. The intersection between FreeBSD and TACK appears to consist of solely of the 80486. (There is also an arm tree but I don't know enough about the arm architecture to know if a 15 year old compiler is going to work with current chips). Possibly FreeBSD could eventually use the compiler but it would need a massive amount of work before it could even support the architectures that FreeBSD runs on. That said, the first step would be for someone to create a port of the compiler. Some of the backends may be of interest to people doing legacy or embedded work. -- Peter Jeremy [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF5APG/opHv/APuIcRAgR4AKCPdBx3WVViGt0+10afnVka9+4cUgCfb4za ZcVHxweMCknMFu6xDLnVgeY= =FNMT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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