Re: Tiger and FrontEnd for gcc

[Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>]

>>>>> "mike" == mike stump <mrs@windriver.com> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:14:56 -0400 Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org To:
>> appel@princeton.edu From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>

>> I would like to write a tiger front end for gcc and be able to try
>> to incorporate it into the FSF's gcc.  What are the legalities
>> about doing this?

I personally don't think this is a good idea: the whole point of the
Tiger project is having the students develop the hard parts of the
compiler.  And in the present case, you'd be giving away scanner and
parser, probably type-checking which are yet an important part of the
exercise.

I doubt Andrew Appel would be happy with that.

I should also insist that students have to develop their test cases,
while reading the specs of the language.  Having a ``reference
compiler'' to test the behavior kills another significant part of the
exercise.