I'm pleased to announce experimental support for Swift compiling to Mac OS 9.
please don't take down my server; I don't know how much git clone it'll handle
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You wot mate?
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Things to do while self-isolating...
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Not just a joke, but definitely worth the read, full of tidbits also for folks who aren't interested in Mac OS 9 but things like porting Swift to bare metal (embedded) targets!
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Ooh, shiney! It even has MPW integration.
Now if only Katrina hadn't eaten all of my classic Macs...
But does it have a MrC importer?
It can read (most) MPW header files, is that good enough? :-P
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@jrose, so when do we get swift-corelibs-libdispatch and swift-corelibs-foundation on it? 
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I guess you mean "UINT_MAX"? 
Well, that's one way to pass time during the quarantine I suppose.
Can you make it for System 6 next? My IIfx is hungry
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Your IIfx will run System 7.6.1, which makes a port much more feasible because you can use CFM-68K [1]. Good luck!
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[1] The alternative being ASLM, and you don’t want to go there, trust me (-:
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For anyone who actually wants to try, it'll be a bit harder because
- LLVM doesn't have a 68k backend
- Nor something that matches the Mac 68k object file format (which I had trouble finding a reference for, eventually found here)
Maybe someday!
Maybe you could generate 68K code directly from SIL. Then add a @segment("...") attribute to handle classic 68K code segments. (Unironically, something like that might also be of interest to people using swift-for-wasm, where you might also want to be able to lazily stream in "segments" of code on demand as you load different parts of a webapp…)
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LLVM doesn't have a 68k backend
Wow, that makes me very sad.
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I think it does now. LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k) - Phoronix
Someone has already managed to make Rust output 68000 binaries.
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