[M3devel] m3back directions?

[Rodney M. Bates]

Wasn't it written an Montreal Poly as a student project or something?

Jay K wrote:
> No, really. GPL.
> 
> http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pm3/m3/pm3/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3back/src/linux/Codex86.m3?rev=1.3;content-type=text%2Fplain
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> http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pm3/m3/pm3/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3objfile/src/linux/ELFObjFile.m3?rev=1.2;content-type=text%2Fplain
>  
>  - Jay
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>  
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> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:59:58 -0400
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] m3back directions?
> 
> All of PM3 is licensed the same way as CM3 (they both derive from the 
> same DEC SRC sources).
> 
> 
> On 1 Apr 2010, at 08:33, Jay K wrote:
> 
>     I think it was GPL though.
>      
>      - Jay
>      
>     >  Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:33:13 +0200
>     >  From: wagner at elegosoft.com <mailto:wagner at elegosoft.com>
>     >  To: hosking at cs.purdue.edu <mailto:hosking at cs.purdue.edu>
>     >  CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com <mailto:m3devel at elegosoft.com>
>     >  Subject: Re: [M3devel] m3back directions?
>     > 
>     >  Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu
>     <mailto:hosking at cs.purdue.edu>>:
>     > 
>     >  > On 31 Mar 2010, at 06:18, wagner at elegosoft.com
>     <mailto:wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:
>     >  >
>     >  >> Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu
>     <mailto:jay.krell at cornell.edu>>:
>     >  >>
>     >  >>> I'm curious what, if anything, people are interested in in m3back?
>     >  >>>
>     >  >>> There are several mostly independent directions:
>     >  >>>
>     >  >>> - remove it; use the gcc backend or other (burg, llvm, generate C)
>     >  >>>
>     >  >>> - expand to support other targets, AMD64_*, including AMD64_NT
>     >  >>>
>     >  >>> m3objfile would need macho/elf support for non-NT
>     >  >>
>     >  >> It would be great if we could use the integrated backend for other
>     >  >> targets, too. Adding ELF support will be a lot of work, but
>     it's probably
>     >  >> worth it.
>     >  >
>     >  > Have you looked at the pm3 Linux support?
>     > 
>     >  Indeed I had forgotten about that. I'll take at look at the Easter
>     >  holidays,
>     > 
>     >  Olaf
>     > 
>     > 
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