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  • Re: Source code compatible rewrite for MOCKA. Anyone interested joining

    From Dr. Helmut Emmelmann@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 14 16:10:12 2024
    In the early 90s I worked on the MOCKA compiler, while employed at the GMD and later at the University of Karlsruhe.

    For me it is great, that apparently MOCKA and its Modula-Dialect are still of interest and even for 64 Bit. I wonder who is still using it and where the need for a 64 Bit version comes from. Is there still much legacy code in use ?

    I translated my Modula programs to C using the modula-2 to C translator provided by the cocktail tool box (on https://github.com/cocolab8/cocktail-src) and then maintained the resulting C code. I also helped clients to port their code to C.

    W.r.t. Mocka, the 32-bit backend needs to be replaced by a 64-Bit backend, but since nowadays there are OSS backends available it seems much better to use one of these rather than developing a new one. Then also the back end generator is not needed any
    more. Still translating to C without MOCKA is probably a better solution.

    regards,
    Helmut
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  • From OrangeFish@21:1/5 to Dr. Helmut Emmelmann on Mon Oct 14 17:37:43 2024
    On 2024-10-14 10:10, Dr. Helmut Emmelmann wrote:
    In the early 90s I worked on the MOCKA compiler, while employed at the
    GMD and later at the University of Karlsruhe.

    For me it is great, that apparently MOCKA and its Modula-Dialect are
    still of interest and even for 64 Bit.

    I am confused here. My understanding is that the code generator modules
    were created with BEG and is specific to x86. (The source to BEG was
    never released.)

    OF

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