[gaius@glam.ac.uk: GNU Modula-2 progress]

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

Please get in touch with him so you and he can work together.

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 99 22:50 BST
From: Gaius Mulley <gaius@glam.ac.uk>
To: rms@gnu.org
Subject: GNU Modula-2 progress
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Hi,

  I'm sure that you are very busy so I'll keep this email brief (no
need for a reply). Basically I thought I'd let you know that progress
is being made connecting the front end of m2f (a GPL Modula-2
compiler) with the back end of gcc, to produce gm2 (GNU Modula-2). I'm
using gcc-2.8.1 whilst developing.  I've not touched the GCC sources,
except the makefiles to include gm2 target. So in theory it should be
straightforward to take the Modula-2 components and fit them onto a
later version of gcc.

  I've been developing since July, and things are going fine.  Pretty
much all declarations are complete, but code generation is still at an
early stage (function prologue/epilogue, simple becomes & expressions
complete).  It is a great feeling to interface some aspect of m2f
to gcc and then see really tight code being emitted. All credit to
gcc. In short I'm hooked!

cheers Gaius
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Gaius Mulley       University of Glamorgan     gaius@glam.ac.uk
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