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Subject: Re: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
> ACK is pretty much useless to us.  It has no C++ or C99 frontend, and
> lacks backends for five of the eight platforms FreeBSD runs on.

It's even worse than that: ACK 6.0pre1 supports only the 8086.
Presumably, support for additional platforms will be restored before
6.0 is released, but until then, it's a boat anchor...

DES
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