Re: Writing a Mac Ada compiler

[cons116@twain.oit.umass.edu (Mike White)]

Well, I've been looking through gcc 2.6.3 for a while now, and am leaning
towards doing the port.  Because this is a both a port and a large program,
I am trying to figure out how to accomplish a bare-minimal mac implement-
ation upon which I can build a good one.  Minimally, it seems, the port
would take a single c file and compile it, outputting an assembler file.

I need to choose an assembler (and linker...) to test the assembly output.
Besides MPW, are there any good (free/ cheap) 68k or ppc assemblers out
there for the mac? I don't have MPW or enough money to buy it right now.
Fantasm is the only shareware one I can find, but it seems a bit limited.
I really wish I could scrape up $500 and get MPW pro!  Maybe if I sell
that old 286... and printer... and monitor... and apple 2c clone... I might
have enough for a down-payment. (Please sob now for the poor college
student.)

Another speed bump:  I could either try to write the mac port as a cross-
compilation on my unix account or compile gcc under a mac compiler.
The former is sure to compile but requires lots of zmodeming
and I'd have to ask for more disk allocation (ive now only got 8 megs and
downloaded gcc into a temporary file space that gets regularly purged.)
The latter is going to take quite some work to compile (some of the code
is in >32k files, etc., ETC!) but I've got space on my hard drive and,
well, it would be a lot more convenient.  Any ideas or experiences?

thats all for now...
mike white