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> 
> > Is there a true 68000 code-generating (as opposed to p-code) 
> > Modula-2 compiler forthe Mac ?
> 
> As far as Modula-2 products go, there are no native code generating Modula-2
> compilers available. They all produce M-code.
> 
> 
> /* Jason Haines            ACSnet: baron@runx
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I don't know where you got that information from, but I happen to have not
one but TWO different Modula-2 (well almost, see below) compilers generating
68000 code.  Both were produced at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland:

MacLogimo consists of a 5-pass compiler, a linker, and a simple TTY-based
interactive post-mortem debugger.  It has been posted to the net in 13 parts
about a year ago.

MacMETH is a new Modula-2 development system comprising a 1-pass compiler,
an editor, and an interactive source-level debugger, all of which were derived
from the latest Lilith/Ceres Modula-2 software.  Unfortunately, the compiler
is non-standard in that it does not allow type-transfer functions of the form
y := T(x) where y is a variable of type T.  Instead, you have to use the
function VAL which has to be imported from module SYSTEM (!), e.g.,
y := VAL(T,x).  Finally, NEW and DISPOSE are not supported, so you have
to call Allocate and Deallocate -- imported from module System (!!) -- instead.
This system was announced on the net about a month or so ago.

I have used both systems a little.  The 5-pass compiler is fairly slow.
Moreover, you have to go through an additional linking step.  However, the
quality of the generated code is fairly good.

I am truly amazed at the speed of the 1-pass compiler!  Moreover, since the
editor, compiler and debugger remain in main memory once they have been
started up, so the edit-compile-debug cycle is very fast indeed!
-- 

Robert Marti, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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