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In article <DZABEL.92Aug7153722@pc4.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
dzabel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Dirk Zabel) writes:
|> 
|> Hi,
|> Does anybody know whether there is a free "generic Modula-2 Compiler" ?
|> I think of something similar to the Zuerich "P4" Pascal compiler. This
|> compiler produced p-code and included an interpreter, but of course 
|> you could also try to translate from p-code to assembly language of your
|> favourite machine. Something similar for Modula-2 would be IMHO desirable
|> and could serve as a base for production quality compilers.

There is a Modula-2 to P-code compiler available for FTP from
gatekeeper.dec.com. The P code is different from other versions, but there
is a document describing it. There is a p-code to vax assembler translator
in the archive, or the compiler can be configured to emit Mips ucode. 

See SIGPLAN 84 compiler conference or one of the Appendices in the
Dragon Book (Aho Sethi & Ullman) for an overview. 

  Ian



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