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Re: anonymous CVS stuff
At 11:18 PM 7/26/99 GMT, Philipp Thomas wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:11:56 +0200 (CEST), "Lieven Marchand"
><mal@bewoner.dma.be> wrote:
>
>> Front end written in Modula-3. Back end modified gcc.
>
>Which means the same situation as with ADA, i.e we're rather far away
>from ever getting the Frontend into GCC (besides the question of
>transferable ownership) :-(((
Ada may be in by GCC 3.0. Modula-3 has the problem that the copyright is in
question - Debian doesn't include because a search of the sources turned up
files owned by Xerox & Microsoft "all rights reserved".
>Sigh, why do frontend creators seemingly tend to create such
>chicken-and-egg problems, i.e. making prebuilt binaries a necessity
>for bootstrapping ? Anybody got a good answer for this ? I mean
>besides the obvious one, which I don't count as good ;-))
What's the obvious one?
The best is that the users of Modula-3 & Ada would generally agree that C
is an awful language to write a compiler it. I've plans to write a GCC
frontend (for Jovial), and I'm seriously considering writing in Ada,
because I don't want to write a project that large in C.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org (alternately dvdeug@hotmail.com)
"I would weep, but my tears have been stolen; I would shout, but my voice
has been taken. Thus, I write." - Tragic Poet