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.
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Technology
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technology behind TenDRA has an academic history dating back to work on
algebraic code validation in the 1970s.
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.
The goals of TenDRA.org are:
*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:
*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
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kernel could be built with TenDRA C and afterwards there was also a similar effort to port the
FreeBSD
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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
*
TenDRA Distribution Format
References
External links
*
The TenDRA ProjectPage on GitHubbitbucket copy of the TenDRA src repository
*
TenDRA in the FreeBSD ports collectionTenDRA in Debianmirror of the original TenDRA web page from DERA
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