Re: GM2 on Darwin 20.4.0/M1

[Gaius Mulley]

Benjamin Kowarsch <trijezdci@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 at 00:13, john o goyo wrote:
>
>  Although GCC does not support Macos on M1, Ian Sandoe is maintaining a 
>  port, to be hopefully included in GCC 14.
>
> Interesting, but also concerning.
>
> I am glad I moved all my code back to C99*, avoiding getting stuck with gcc 
> when targeting MacOS on Apple silicon.
>
> Out of curiosity, is there any forecast/estimate when GCC will support MacOS 
> on Apple silicon?
>
> Gaius, perhaps you want to consider a back end that generates C99 from 
> Modula-2 input for such situations.
>
> [*] As somebody who doesn't have time to work on projects continuously but 
> taking long hiatuses in between stretches of work, I have regularly been hit 
> by tools or libraries that I was using no longer working once I got back to
> work, then wasting all my available time on trying to fix the broken 
> dependency, and not getting any real work done at all as I was running out of 
> time and had to take another hiatus, after which again some dependency broke.
> Eventually, I adopted an NIH ("not implemented here") attitude, writing 
> everything myself, from scratch if needed, and I actually get more work done 
> this way. The only thing I now use is a C99 compiler and its stdlib. Plenty of
> implementations to choose from if one of them breaks. The next time I will be 
> coding in Modula-2 will be after I get my compiler bootstrapped.

Hi,

6 failures out of 11000 is pretty good.  The failure of 6 is likely one
test failing 6 times (involving select iirc and coroutines).  I suspect
it is easier to fix the regression test failure than write a back end
for C99 :-)

regards,
Gaius