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- From: jan@pallas.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jan Vorbrueggen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
- Subject: Re: occam
- Message-ID: <JAN.92Aug13003718@pallas.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 04:37:18 GMT
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- Organization: Inst. f. Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, FRG
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- In-reply-to: k3mi@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca's message of 12 Aug 92 12:41:07 GMT
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- Am I missing the point here, but, there is a utility in the latest version
- of the Occam toolset (also in the latest version of the c toolset and if
- I remember, is also in the D705 product)ANYWAY: the utility is called
- imakef and builds a makefile (complete with all necessary dependencies). It
- does this by backtracking from the desired .btl/.b8h/etc. to all .occ/.pgm
- files.
-
- The slave work is required in spite of imakef trying to give you a first
- cut but that first cut is very rough and needs extensive hand editing,
- so when you make any additions/changes, it's not feasable to just run imakef
- again. We're talking here of a programme, of course, that has 3 different
- programmes, each consisting of a halfdozen processes, all accessing elements
- of about a dozen libraries (not counting system libraries). imakef, for
- instance, can't figure the libraries out, and how could it, they're arbitrary
- anyway.
-
- 'nuff said.
-
- While we're at it: Thanks for the official Inmos statement of occam's future.
- I especially applaud the development decisions (what to implement first, etc).
- Two little questions reamin, however: How optimising do you expect the
- compiler to be (e.g. compared with the ACE compilers), and could the delivery
- date of 1993 be narrowed a little? Thanks.
-
- Jan Vorbrueggen
- jan@neuroinformatik.ruhrunibochum.de
-