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Re: Algol front end


On Tue, 14 May 2002, Robert Dewar wrote:

> > I believe that the amount of work needed to put either of them within the
> > gcc framework is about the same. a68g ... ctrans ...
> > The parser would need to be interfaced to the new
> > tree; something that is going to hamper attempts to bring gpc into the
> > fold. Sothis is clearly not soemthing that will make 3.2.
> 
> I am amazed that anyone would even consider that this could "make 3.2".

Nobody did. I was pointing out that any such idea would be
unachieveable. Also who apart from me wants it? ;-)

> There is a *lot* of work here. Ctrans is a starting point, but only that.

Yes, there's the support library to consider. As I say both a58g and
ctrans are incomplete in that respect.



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