The Amsterdam Compiler Kit

Support has been added for generating CP/M binaries using the 8080 code generator. The various optimisers have been beaten into shape, and it's now possible to use them on all platforms; a basic peephole optimiser has been set up for the 8080. The floating point system has been confirmed working on the pc86 and linux386 platforms. ANSI compatibility has been improved, binary sizes have been reduced, and there are many bugfixes everywhere.

Limited support was added for Linux i386
executables. The syscall interface was greatly
simplified by disabling libmon and instead calling
the syscalls directly. The K&R C compiler and libc
were disabled because they don't actually provide
any advantage and they have a high maintenance
load. The rest of the system was adapted to build
with the ANSI C compiler. The pc86 syscall
interface was rewritten. Lots and lots of bugfixes
and tweaks were made everywhere.

This is the first preview release of a complete reworking of the ACK build mechanism and infrastructure. The new system is far simpler, more modern, easier to maintain, and hopefully more portable. However, functionality is currently very limited. This version will target only the pc86 platform (generating 8086 bootable PC executables), but it will compile ANSI C, K&R C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam 1, and Basic.