Software:TenDRA Compiler
| Stable release | 4.1.2
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | POSIX |
| Type | Compiler |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | www |
The TenDRA Compiler is a C/C++ compiler for POSIX-compatible operating systems available under the terms of the BSD license.
It was originally developed by the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in the United Kingdom . In the beginning of 2002 TenDRA was actively developed again by Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven and offered as a BSD-licensed open source project through the website tendra.org. In the third quarter of 2002 the one-man effort was expanded to a small team.
The TDF technology behind TenDRA has an academic history dating back to work on algebraic code validation in the 1970s.[1]
In August 2003 TenDRA split into two projects, TenDRA.org and Ten15.org. Both projects seemed to have disappeared from the web around 2006–2007, but actually they are still active.[2][3]
The goals of TenDRA.org are:[citation needed]
- to continuously produce correct code,
- to ensure code correctness through various means, and
- to continuously improve the performance of the compiler and resulting code, unless it would jeopardize the points above.
The goals of Ten15.org added:[citation needed]
- to be a friendly competitor to GCC in order to get a best-of-breed compiler.
Features of both compilers include good error reporting with respect to standards compliance and a smaller code size than the same programs compiled on gcc. C++ support never got as developed as C support, and there was no STL supporting release. TenDRA uses the Architecture Neutral Distribution Format (ANDF), a specification created by the Open Group, as its intermediate language.
At a point, most of the Alpha OSF/1 kernel could be built with TenDRA C and afterwards there was also a similar effort to port the FreeBSD kernel.
Documentation
TenDRA.org has a comprehensive set of documentation available online at http://www.tendra.org/docs
Manual pages for references to programs and file formats are available at http://www.tendra.org/man
See also
References
- ↑ "Academic Papers". http://www.tendra.org/papers/.
- ↑ The TenDRA project news, //www.tendra.org/status/news/index.html
- ↑ root/trunk/tendra/NEWS, http://www.ten15.org/browser/trunk/tendra/NEWS
External links
- The TenDRA Project
- Page on GitHub
- bitbucket copy of the TenDRA src repository
- TenDRA in the FreeBSD ports collection
- TenDRA in Debian
- mirror of the original TenDRA web page from DERA
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