Amsterdam Compiler Kit
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Amsterdam Compiler Kit
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Re: Amsterdam Compiler Kit
#2Looks cool, last post in 2022 though? Is it feature complete?
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#3tl;dr: A kit for targeting several old or old-ish platforms, with code in some languages popular in the 1980s: C89 (ANSI C), Pascal, Modula 2, Basic. A 'kit' here means: frontend, codegen, support libraries and some tools. This is apparently known as being the default toolchain for Minix 1 and 2.
But - the repository is not "everything you need"; it actually relies on a lot from an existing platform - GCC, Lua, Make, Python etc. So, you would typically use this to cross-compile it seems.
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#4Why the name amsterdam?
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#5Why the name amsterdam?
> © 1987-2005 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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#6Why the name amsterdam?
Renamed from Free University Compiler Kit
Re: Amsterdam Compiler Kit
#7tl;dr: A kit for targeting several old or old-ish platforms, with code in some languages popular in the 1980s: C89 (ANSI C), Pascal, Modula 2, Basic. A 'kit' here means: frontend, codegen, support libraries and some tools. This is apparently known as being the default toolchain for Minix 1 and 2. But - the repository is not "everything you need"; it actually relies on a lot from an existing platform - GCC, Lua, Make,…
> apparently known as being the default toolchain for Minix 1 and 2.
That is not very surprising since Tannenbaum is a professor there and cowrote wrote the ACK and wrote Minix.
Re: Amsterdam Compiler Kit
#8Looks cool, last post in 2022 though? Is it feature complete?
This has been posted before
2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42833638
2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310987 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22612420
Re: Amsterdam Compiler Kit
#9It's interesting that they have a Raspberry Pi GPU backend, but neither an ARM backend nor any modern ISA. (such as x86-64, Aarch64, etc.) Is there any example program that actually runs on the rpi gpu? I skimped the website, but it is only mentioned in the release notes.