Re: Modula-2 for MS-DOS PC compatibles

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1 total messages Started by Dickson Thu, 05 Feb 1987 22:25

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Author: Dickson
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1987 22:25

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>     Question:  How close does FTL follow the Modula-2 standard?  Can it
>handle generic source?  Or are there tradeoffs involved?
>
>     How fast/large is the resultant object code?  I was not impressed with
>the code that Turbo produced ( relatively slow ).
>
>     Does FTL produce m-code, or true machine code?

The FTL Modula-2 compiler is supposed to follow the third edition of
Wirth's book. The object code is limited to the 8086 small model (from
this fact, I assume it generated 8086 machine code, but since I haven't
purchased the compiler yet, I can't really say for sure).

See Jerry Pournelle's column in this month's issue of Byte (February
'87). Also see the current issue of Micro Cornucopia (Feb-Mar), there is
another comparison type article in it. Unfortunately, both of those
issues are at home right now.

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