Amsterdam Compiler Kit
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| Developer(s) | Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 6.0pre3 / 2007-04-29 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Minix and Unix-like |
| Type | 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.
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.)
[edit] Target processors
- 6500
- 6800 (assembler only)
- 6805 (assembler only)
- 6809 (assembler only)
- ARM
- 8080*
- Z80
- Z8000
- i86*
- i386
- 68000
- 68020
- 68040
- NS32016
- S2650 (assembler only)
- SPARC
- VAX4
- PDP11
* Version 6.0
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