From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3fc79ad704f81a40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-12 13:20:17 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.umass.edu!nic.umass.edu!twain.oit.umass.edu!cons116 From: cons116@twain.oit.umass.edu (Mike White) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing a Mac Ada compiler Date: 12 Mar 1995 21:13:37 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <3jvo61$822@nic.umass.edu> References: <3ji8rc$rj8@nic.umass.edu> <3jijbe$q7b@michp1.redstone.army.mil> <3jkq49$m1g@nic.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: twain.oit.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1995-03-12T21:13:37+00:00 List-Id: 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