Re: FSF drops Apple boycott, opens gate for GNAT, etc

[kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)]

In article <1995Feb7.090613.9062@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software) writes:
>But seriously, I am curious when you say the necessary code generators
>are there.

Because they are.  Irrespective of WHY they were developed, the
question of whether or not they exist is not one open to debate.  Go
look at a GCC distribution.

>If GNAT is not presently on Macintosh, how is there a code
>generator for 68K (or PowerPC, for that matter, since MacOS seems to be
>the only consumer of those chips so far).

The 68K was the CPU used in the Sun3, which was for quite a while the
major (indeed essentially only) workstation used in Universities and
many other places.

The PowerPC port was done since it is very similar to the POWER
architecture used by the RS/6000, which GCC has supported since its
inception.

Motorola and IBM have expressed interest in the PowerPC GCC port.