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From: maximilian.spring@gmail.com
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Subject: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
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I had used the backend generator BEG v1.75 by Helmut Emmelmann [1] for an Oberon-2 compiler as part of my computer science thesis in 1995.

Trying to resurrect this old code base [2], I run into the problem that the original BEG binary which I still have is in an old a.out format, and I have been unsuccessful so far to get it to run on a modern Linux.

I reached out to Helmut Emmelmann via the contact info from his web site [3], but haven't received any response.

What other options should I look into?

-Max

[1] ftp://i44ftp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/mocka/linux/beg1.75-linux.lsm
[2] https://github.com/m2spring/jacob
[3] http://hei.biz/