16 Jan
2017
16 Jan
'17
9:22 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:52:04AM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:
It's been done. Anders Magnusson has done
quite a bit to port pcc and
add both ANSI and selected GCC features.
A quick google search reveals:
http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/
and https://www.openbsd.org/papers/magnusson_pcc.pdf
which is a set of slides on the work done.
I've been itching to rewrite PDP-7 Unix in a higher level language.
I've already designed the language and written a compiler for the PDP-7
(see https://github.com/DoctorWkt/h-compiler) but the generated code sucks.
Maybe I should try to retarget PCC, it would be slightly ironic :-)
Cheers, Warren