Re: C bug of the day

[Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:

>Vinzent Hoefler wrote in message ...
>Erlo Haugen wrote:
>>>As for other 8 bits, Z80 and the like would be good candidates.
>
>>At least for 6502 and Z80 exist C-compilers, so I don't see why there
>>shouldn't be any Ada-Compiler. I even remember playing around with
>>Pascal and FORTH on a Z80 machine (around 1986).
>
>The original versions of Janus/Ada were for CP/M on 8080/Z80 machines.
>Certainly, in 1986 you could have purchased Janus/Ada from us.

Well, not so easy, I'd say. I doubt, you would have been allowed to
export to "communist" countries. ;)

>It would be relatively easy to create a cross-compiler to the Z80; we
>still have the majority of the source for it. Of course, it would be a
>significant job to bring it up to the current state of our compiler --
>it's been more than 15 years since any development took place on that
>compiler. But we haven't had a customer who was interested enough to
>partially fund it.

Well, I guess, I don't have the money to fund that either. What about
releasing that stuff to the open source community?


Vinzent.

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