What are the chances of GCC for PRIMOS?

["Andrew Marlow" <Andrew dot Marlow at icap dot com>]

Hello guys,

Recently, on comp.sys.prime a PRIMOS emulator was announced. It is for
quite an old version of Primos (rev 19.2) before Prime puts its weight
behind an official C compiler. We on this ng are trying to track down an
unofficial C compiler that was around at that time. But someone
suggested that maybe GCC might, at some point, be able to emit code for
PRIMOS. This would be PMA (Prime Macro Assembler). I really hope that
this could be done. I wonder what the chances are.

I know that Primes are ancient and that Prime has been dead for many
years, but this emulator seems to have given PRIMOS a new lease of life.
People have already started to upload source to the emulator to get
their favourite programs up and running on what used to be a very
popular system. For example, I want to compile uEmacs which is written
in K&R C.

Even if this work cannot be done for GCC it would be good to at least
get an official statement to that effect (would put us Primates out of
our misery..).

Regards,

Andrew Marlow
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