Re: [Tack-devel] [Spam] [Spam] MINIX 1.5 and ACK

[Jacobs, C.J.H. <c.j...@vu...>]

I’m sorry, I did not find the source code. So far, I only found an old RCS repository with some scripts that 
- are not documented
- are about 30 years old
- no longer work because they use commands/scripts that I no longer have (Dick Grune’s original CVS)
- apparently create a minix version of the compiler passes from an existing ACK tree.

Still looking ...

Ceriel

> On 24 Jun 2019, at 21:15, Christian Groessler <ch...@gr...> wrote:
> 
> On 3/11/19 8:13 AM, Jacobs, C.J.H. via Tack-devel wrote:
>> Good question! I survived, and I produced those binaries back then. But this was a very long time ago,
>> and my memory has never been any good... nor are my archiving skills... When I find some time, I’ll
>> see if I can do some digging. From what I remember, the only real problem was getting the compiler front-end
>> to fit in 64K instruction space and 64K data space. For that, we took out the C preprocessor (which was/is built-in
>> into the C frontend) and made it a separate pass, and we also took out the floating-point library. Other than that,
>> I don’t remember exactly, but I think it was just a little bit of tweaking.
> 
> 
> Kind reminder, did you find some time to check if you still have the source code?
> 
> regards,
> chris
> 
> 
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