[M3devel] Re: porting m3 on intel mac

[Antony Hosking]

It's actually not that surprising that you got part way.  I did the  
initial bootstrap on Darwin/Intel by cross-compiling with a  
PPC_DARWIN binary running under Rosetta.

On 20/01/2007, at 11:41 AM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 03:05:55PM +0100, Renzo Orsini wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I  installed cm3-min-POSIX-PPC_DARWIN-5.4.0.tgz on an intel mac, then
>> tried to a compile a Hello world program, but the compilation failed
>> with the following message:
>>
>> pborsini:~/ProveModula3 orsini$ cm3
>> --- building in PPC_DARWIN ---
>>
>> new source -> compiling Main.m3
>> "../Main.m3", line 4: warning: potentially unhandled exception:  
>> IO.Error
>> 1 warning encountered
>> Main.ms:12:no such instruction: `mflr r0'
>> Main.ms:13:no such instruction: `stmw r30,-8(r1)'
>> Main.ms:14:no such instruction: `stw r0,8(r1)'
>> Main.ms:15:no such instruction: `stwu r1,-96(r1)'
>> Main.ms:16:no such instruction: `mr r30,r1'
>> Main.ms:17:no such instruction: `bcl 20,31,"L00000000001$pb"'
>> ...
>> ....
>>
>> So I suppose there is PPC code to assemble and the Rosetta emulator
>> for PPC on intel macs cannot do anything for this!
>>
>> Since I would like to port the Fibonacci language for databases,
>> which is written in Modula-3, if I understand well the situation I
>> should port the Modula-3 compiler by cross compiling it on a PPC mac,
>> or something like that.
>>
>> I am asking you if you know about some effort of porting Modula-3 on
>> intel macs, or at least if you let me know if this operation is
>> possible (and also reasonably feasible in terms of time and
>> expertise, given my teaching duties and my difficulties with
>> assembler languages!), and, if so, if you can point me to the correct
>> documentation to start with. Of course I will be very glad to give
>> back to the community the result if I succeed!
>>
>> Thank you very much for your attention.
>>
>> Cordially
>>
>> Renzo Orsini
>> Associate Professor
>> Dipartimento di Informatica
>> Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia
>
> Well, I wouldn't have thought that you were even able to install
> the cm3-min-POSIX-PPC_DARWIN-5.4.0.tgz system on an Intel machine;
> it's surely not supposed to run on one. It shouldn't be too
> difficult to get a port of the latest CM3 for Darwin on Intel
> processors; I even think somebody was already working on it,
> but I don't really remember who, so I forward your mail to
> the m3devel list, in case others have already started such an
> effort.
>
> Olaf
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