Re: gcc-2.8.0 mailing list ?

[Michael Neuffer <neuffer at goofy dot zdv dot uni-mainz dot de>]

On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, John Polstra wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is anybody still working on
> > SRC-Modula3 ? 
> 
> Yes, there is still development going on.  The folks at SRC aren't
> doing too much on it any more, but other developers have picked it
> up.  There's even a commercial version -- see <http://www.cmass.com>.

There is a non-commercial branch from SRC-M3 which seems to be much more
active: Cambridge Modula-3

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/m3doc/linux/cambridge.html

Richard Watts <Richard.Watts@cl.cam.ac.uk> is working on getting 
CAM3 to work with glibc 2. The same patches would probably then also fit
for SRC-M3 

> The newsgroup for the language is "comp.lang.modula3".  It has a
> relatively low signal to noise ratio.

> > It can be found on http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/
> > and is based on an anicient gcc (2.3.something or so).
> 
> It's not quite _that_ ancient.  The code generator is based on GCC
> 2.6.3.

Ooops. Mea Culpa. I should have looked at it again.

> I updated it fairly painlessly to the 2.7.2.1 code generator,
> and that's the version used under FreeBSD.  The Modula-3 specific
> files for the 2.7.2.1 code generator can be found at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/LOCAL_PORTS/m3-fbsd-m3cc-3.6.tar.gz

Did anyone ever think about integrating M3 with gcc/egcs as an additional
frontend similar to the Fortran and Pascal frontends ?

I think that would make more sense in the long run then duplicating or
even triplicating porting efforts of different (semi-)independent 
branches.

Mike