David Given

Turns out the i80 already has optional floating-point; compile with `-fp` to enable it. The libc is configured for floating point so that it'll work with `-fp`. Without `-fp` you...

Unfortunately, no --- there's no way the linker can tell whether you're going to call printf with %f in the format string or not.

printf is an interpreter which reads the format spec out of a string. There's no way to tell which formatting specifications are used because the format spec can be created...

Re -i: beats me, I don't even know what a set subrange is! At the very least the error ought to be improved. The implementation uses an EM feature where...

Okay, so, looking at the code I was misunderstanding what was going on --- that number isn't the size of the *type*, it's the number of items a *set of...

(I'll look at the -i issue later.)

Are there any non-Bison yaccs still around? Could we just switch to bison -y instead?

My Modula-2 knowledge is very small (despite living in Zürich --- ETH is just up the road!), so I can't contribute much here; but I'm completely up for the idea...

That's good to know --- several of the ACK languages are so archaic as to be almost useless (e.g. I had to disable the Occam compiler because the language has...

Re licensing: you suggested incorporating BasicFileIO and BasicFileSys from m2mm into the ACK standard library. That means that the ACK standard library becomes an derived work consisting of the existing...