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M2C Modula-2 Compiler & Translator Project

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Objective

The objective of this project is to develop a highly portable, reliable, readable and maintainable multi-dialect Modula-2 to C translator and via-C compiler that is feature compatible with the M2J and M2Sharp translators/compilers.

Purpose

The purpose of the M2C compiler is to provide a means:

• to compile and run program examples from early Modula-2 books (PIM3/PIM4), in particular works by Wirth.
• to develop, build and bootstrap a portable compiler for Modula-2 Revision 2010 written in a subset of M2 R10.

Dialects

The M2C compiler shall support the classic Modula-2 language described in the third and fourth editions of "Programming in Modula-2" (Wirth, 1983-1985) and selected features of the revised Modula-2 language described in "Modula-2 Revision 2010" (Kowarsch and Sutcliffe, 2010-2015). For details, see section Dialects & Language. The ISO Modula-2 dialect will not be supported.

Grammar

The grammar of the compiler is in the project repository

https://github.com/m2sf/m2sharp/blob/master/m2c-grammar.gll

For a graphical representation of the grammar, see section Syntax Diagrams.

License

The M2C compiler is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) both v.2.1 and v.3.

Prerequisites

The M2C compiler is written in C99 and therefore a C99 compiler is required to build it. There are no dependencies on any third party libraries.

OS support

The M2C compiler is supported on the following operating systems:

• AmigaOS
• BSD
• Linux
• MacOS
• MS-DOS
• OpenVMS
• Windows
• Solaris

IDE support

The M2C compiler has been integrated with Vim.

Collaboration

If you would like to contribute to the project, please get in touch by email

trijezdci (gmail)

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