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These are the comments as I received them from Albert Koelmans.
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The only thing I did was adapt the installation mechanism for ACK, and
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made some adaptions to de code generator to support the improved FP package.
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I also removed some comments that were no longer up-to-date.
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Ceriel Jacobs
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AMSTERDAM COMPILER KIT - BACKEND FOR ACORN RISC MACHINE PROCESSOR
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===========================================================================
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This file contains some advice on how to go about installing the ARM backend
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for the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK), followed by a shar file containing the
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backend itself. In what follows, ~ will denote the ACK root directory (on
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most systems, this will be /usr/em), also called EMHOME in most makefiles.
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Make sure that your PATH includes ~/bin
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cd to ~/bin, and type
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ln ack arm
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cd to ~/mach/proto/ncg, and inspect file param.h. The constant MAXEMLINES
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should be at least 40. Edit the file if necessary.
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cd to ~/util/ncgg, and inspect file param.h. The constant MAXNODES should
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have as parameter at least 1200. If this is not the case, edit the
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file and type 'make install' to generate a new ncgg.
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If some compilations fail, inspect file Out in the appropriate subdirectory
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to find the cause.
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ACK will create an a.out file which includes an ACK header and symbol table.
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Use the cv program to strip these off, after which the executable should be
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downloaded onto an Archimedes machine and have it's type set to FF8.
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Acknowledgements: the first version of the backend was written by an anonymous
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student at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. The code generator was further
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developed and debugged by Albert Koelmans. Andrew Michael wrote most of the
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assembler sources. A simple RiscOs interface was added by Albert Koelmans.
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All of this involved extensive help from Ceriel Jacobs. The assertion in the
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ACK documentation that writing a backend is a major task is certainly true...
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In case of major problems, bugs etc, contact me at the address below....
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Revision history:
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jan 1990 version 1.0
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mar 1990 version 1.1
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Some bugs sorted out
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Backend generates tighter code
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Much better target optimiser
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apr 1990 version 2.0
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Register variables introduced
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more bugs removed
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Albert Koelmans
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(albert.koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk)
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