Amsterdam Compiler Kit

Amsterdam Compiler Kit

infobox software
developer = Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs
latest release version = 6.0pre3
latest release date = release date|2007|04|29
operating system = Minix and Unix-like
programming language = C
genre = Retargetable compiler
license = BSD licenses
website = http://tack.sourceforge.net/

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a fast, lightweight and retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, and is Minix's native toolchain. The ACK was originally closed-source software (that allowed binaries to be distributed for Minix as a special case), but in April 2003 it was released under a BSD open source license. It has frontends for C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC.

The ACK achieves maximum portability by using an intermediate byte-code language called EM. Each language front-end produces EM object files, which are then processed through a number of generic optimisers before being translated by a back-end into native machine code.

Unlike GCC's intermediate language, EM is a real programming language and could be implemented in hardware; a number of the language front-ends have libraries implemented in EM assembly. EM is a relatively high-level stack-based machine, and one of the tools supplied with ACK is an interpreter capable of executing EM binaries directly, with a high degree of safety checking.

ACK comes with a generic linker and librarian capable of manipulating files in the ACK's own a.out-based format; it will work on files containing EM code as well as native machine code. (You cannot, however, link EM code to native machine code without translating the EM binary first.)

Target Processors

* 6500
* 6800
* 6805
* ARM
* 8080
* Z80
* Z8000
* i86
* i386
* 68000
* 68020
* NS32016
* S2650
* SPARC
* VAX4
* PDP11

See also

*GNU Compiler Collection
*Portable C Compiler
*Small Device C Compiler

References

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External links

* [http://tack.sourceforge.net/ official home page]
* [http://www.cs.vu.nl/ack/ Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) information sheet]


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