[M3devel] bootstrap from IL code?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>:

> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:35 +0100, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>> Quoting Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>:
>>
>> > I see where it is... But, somebody probably already did it... Is there
>> > short script or howto on making cm3-min substitute based on IL?
>> >
>> > And why we don't have cm3-min-*-*... buildable with only gcc on-system??
>> > IMO, this would help anybody building system.
>>
>> This was in PM3, but has never been integrated into CM3. If you'd
>> like to work on it, it will be great. We could even come to the point
>> were we build distributions for most targets on one platforms (possibly
>> with the exception of crossing 32->64 bit boundaries).
>
> When I ported PM3 to LINUXALPHA, problem was in gcc, it had problems
> cross compiling on 32bit for 64bit... I've made some quick&dirty fix so
> it was IL code being archived/transferred/compiled, and not assembly as
> was usual at time... John Polstra extended and integrated that trick
> into building system of PM3, I don't know where that code is now.
> Anybody?

It should be in the PM3 repository, which is hosted and available
at the elego WWW servers, too:

   http://modula3.elegosoft.com/pm3/

There hasn't been much activity in recent years though.

Olaf
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