Re: Moving along with mc

[john o goyo]

Greetings, Benjamin.

On 2021-07-26 00:26, Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 03:28, john o goyo <jog37@riddermarkfarm.ca 
> <mailto:jog37@riddermarkfarm.ca>> wrote:
>
>
>     I should state that my goal is to extract m2 (and enough
>     libraries) from
>     gm2 to build a working PIM translator for those environments
>     wherein gm2
>     does not build.  (For example, GCC does not support my M1 box; the
>     native compiler is clang.)
>
>
> If you are aiming for a PIM translator, I'd like to suggest you follow 
> the recommendations
> (where applicable) in a paper I wrote a few years ago:
>
> On the Maintenance of Classic Modula-2 Compilers
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07080 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07080>

Thank you for the interesting reference.

I do not agree with all of the suggestions proposed but my intentions 
with mc are two-fold: (1) to use whatever is in mc with as little 
modification as possible (so that whenever mc changes, I can take the 
changes with little or no effort); and (2) there is a lot of legacay PIM 
code that is not cost-effective for me to modify.

Sincerely,
john

> regards
> benjamin