<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>You don't need a C standard, you just need to work with a few C compilers. Really not difficult. Also #line directives would be key part of debugging. Also, debugger expression evaluation would use C syntax, and, worse, object model would show through. It might help to produce C++ instead. Anyway, I'm sure it is a good idea. Just have to find lots of time...<br><br> - Jay (phone<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); ">)</span></div><div><br>On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:44 AM, "Daniel Alejandro Benavides D." <<a href="mailto:dabenavidesd@yahoo.es">dabenavidesd@yahoo.es</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi all:<br>According to this it might be not p 20<br><a href="ftp://ftp.deas.harvard.edu/techreports/tr-01-05.pdf">ftp://ftp.deas.harvard.edu/techreports/tr-01-05.pdf</a><br><br>In any case will be enough to output C code inside the RT system to provide better maintainability? I believe it isn't but just to try to nicely be compliant with "a standard" that nobody has ever claim as such:<br>http://www.artikcommunity.biz/showthread.php?t=8224645&page=8&p=34494829#post34494829<br><br>Sorry, if I'm being unpolitical, but anyway, you have supported my true passion, good languages.<br><br>Thanks in advance and please make any comments you may have<br><br>--- El <b>mar, 14/2/12, Dragiša Durić <i><dragisha@m3w.org></i></b> escribió:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>De: Dragiša Durić <dragisha@m3w.org><br>Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Think we
need a new release. C target<br>Para: "Jay K" <jay.krell@cornell.edu><br>CC: "m3devel" <m3devel@elegosoft.com><br>Fecha: martes, 14 de febrero, 2012 06:20<br><br><div id="yiv1844657832"><div>I did not agree with this before… But having met mindset "but we unserrrstand C"+"who will maintain than"+"we can't control that module code"… I agree now :).<div><br></div><div>With C target we don't have to worry about gcc internal changes and we can shield our customer of horrible non-C nature of product we are selling :).</div><div><br></div><div>Question is: Can we pass enough information to object/executable to allow us source level debugging of Modula-3?</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="yiv1844657832Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="yiv1844657832Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="yiv1844657832Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">A C-generating backend should ease installation and integration into distributions and such, since there could be a more "tradtional" Csource.tar.gz...</span></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></body></html>