Source code compatible rewrite for MOCKA. Anyone interested joining in?

[Dr. Helmut Emmelmann]

In the early 90s I worked on the MOCKA compiler, while employed at the GMD and later at the University of Karlsruhe.

For me it is great, that apparently MOCKA and its Modula-Dialect are still of interest and even for 64 Bit. I wonder who is still using it and where the need for a 64 Bit version comes from. Is there still much legacy code in use ?

I translated my Modula programs to C using the modula-2 to C translator provided by the cocktail tool box (on https://github.com/cocolab8/cocktail-src) and then maintained the resulting C code. I also helped clients to port their code to C.

W.r.t. Mocka, the 32-bit backend needs to be replaced by a 64-Bit backend, but since nowadays there are OSS backends available it seems much better to use one of these rather than developing a new one. Then also the back end generator is not needed any more. Still translating to C without MOCKA is probably a better solution.

regards,
Helmut
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[OrangeFish]

Post by Dr. Helmut Emmelmann
In the early 90s I worked on the MOCKA compiler, while employed at the
GMD and later at the University of Karlsruhe.
For me it is great, that apparently MOCKA and its Modula-Dialect are
still of interest and even for 64 Bit.

I am confused here. My understanding is that the code generator modules
were created with BEG and is specific to x86. (The source to BEG was
never released.)

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