Two #blog posts in less than one week!

It was considered known that there is no support within GNAT (Ada) for illumos. We cross-build a complete native binutils+gcc toolchain for illumos to test out this claim.

...only to discover that illumos has full support within GNAT. Not a single test fails.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250817.html

#Ada #illumos#GNAT#GCC#GNU #freesoftware #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #compiler #compilers

Two #blog posts in less than one week!

It was considered known that there is no support within GNAT (Ada) for illumos. We cross-build a complete native binutils+gcc toolchain for illumos to test out this claim.

...only to discover that illumos has full support within GNAT. Not a single test fails.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250817.html

#Ada #illumos#GNAT#GCC#GNU #freesoftware #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #compiler #compilers

Paul McJones on the passing of computer scientist Robert Brayton and his role in the first Lisp compiler.

https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2025/07/15/1449

#retrocomputing #lisp #compilers

MicroHs, a tiny Haskell Compiler https://lobste.rs/s/ak9mmk #video #compilers #haskell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJwvPEq4Mok

MicroHs, a tiny Haskell Compiler https://lobste.rs/s/ak9mmk #video #compilers #haskell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJwvPEq4Mok

For my next #compiler project, I want to write the optimization passes myself, but I don't want to deal with generating machine code for multiple platforms. So tell me #programminglanguages #plt #pldev #compilers fedi, what is an IR that I can target that has a non-optimizing compiler to machine code and supports multiple platforms? This rules out most popular IR like LLVM, C, QBE, Cranelift etc.

In short, I want something that does only instruction selection, register allocation and codegen for multiple platforms. I don't need optimization, so I expect this thing to be really small and lightweight, unlike LLVM, GCC etc.