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| DEC optimising Modula-2 compiler jensting@diku.dk (1990-06-01) |
| Re: DEC optimising Modula-2 compiler scott@cs.rochester.edu (1990-06-05) |
| Re: DEC optimising Modula-2 compiler grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (1990-06-06) |
| Re: DEC optimising Modula-2 compiler moss@cs.umass.edu (1990-06-07) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| From: | moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) |
| References: | <1990Jun1.193655.5436@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Jun6.145711.1434@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> |
| Date: | Thu, 7 Jun 90 17:14:43 GMT |
| Organization: | Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) |
| Keywords: | modula |
| In-Reply-To: | grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu's message of 6 Jun 90 14:57:11 GMT |
A couple of notes regarding Dirk's mention of a "Modula-3 to C translator":
1) It is *not* a simple translator, but a true compiler whose target language
happens to be C rather than assembly. (Dirk may have known that; the word
translator is a little ambiguous, though, so I thought I would offer
clarification).
2) The Modula-3 compiler is, I believe, descended from a Modula-2+ compiler at
DEC SRC (with earlier work also done at DEC WRL, I believe). Greg Nelson
(gnelson@src.dec.com) can tell you more about its relationship to other
compilers developed in DEC's research labs.
The Modula-3 compiler is alive and well and almost up to version 1.5. I
suspect it is not highly optimizing, but relies on the C compiler for a lot of
the optimizations. My research group at UMass is working on Gnu Modula-3 using
the Gnu C back end, so it will be a native optimizing compiler (first target
is VAX, but gm3 should be about as easily ported as gcc). Cheers!
--
J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
Lederle Graduate Research Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu
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