Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!star!ast
From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C compiler in Atari port
Message-ID: <698@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 27 Apr 88 08:17:46 GMT
References: <217@dutrun.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
Lines: 13
Keywords: c-compiler, Atari-ST port

In article <217@dutrun.UUCP> tnsgvdp@dutrun.UUCP (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
>Does anybody know how the people that did the Atari ST port included a
>c compiler into the port? 
>- Did they use the Motorola 68000 backend of the ACK?

That is indeed correct.  The MINIX compilers are derived from ACK, so it
was a straightforward matter to switch from the 8088 backend to the 68000
backend.  The ACK system is described in Communications of the ACM, Sept.
1983.  I realize that everyone already knows this, but if I don't include
enough filler here, Pnews will complain that the included text is longer
than my text and refuse to post the message. 

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)