On 18 April 2007 10:29, Andrew Marlow wrote: > Recently, on comp.sys.prime a PRIMOS emulator was announced. It is for > quite an old version of Primos (rev 19.2) before Prime puts its weight > behind an official C compiler. We on this ng are trying to track down an > unofficial C compiler that was around at that time. But someone > suggested that maybe GCC might, at some point, be able to emit code for > PRIMOS. This would be PMA (Prime Macro Assembler). I really hope that > this could be done. I wonder what the chances are.
Depends how you count it. Gcc can be ported to generate pretty much any assembler code, so the chance could be said to be 100%. Then again, it's probably a few months of more-or-less fulltime work. So the chances of it just happening without someone actually getting up and doing it is 0%. If some of the newsgroup guys want to volunteer to do it, everyone here will offer help and advice. If you want to hire a contractor to do it, that would work too. But the odds of some random gcc hacker with no special interest in PRIMOS suddenly deciding to volunteer that amount of time and effort for no reason are ... small. > Even if this work cannot be done for GCC it would be good to at least > get an official statement to that effect (would put us Primates out of > our misery..). http://cygwin.com/acronyms#SHTDI http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PTC > There is an emerald here the size of a plover's egg! plugh! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
