This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Status of Ada in GCC?
On 24 Sep 2002 00:17:10 +0200, Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> When oh when is GCC going to have that "documented, stable front-end
> API" that Mark Mitchell mentioned in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-04/msg00600.html ???
> It still is poorly documented and unstable.
Oh, probably when someone spends a lot of time working on it. bnw-simple
is, I think, a step in that direction.
> Don't get me wrong, I understand the need for all this new stuff, but it
> would be nice if Jason's new IL will not change very much for at least a
> couple of years or so. Do The Right Thing Now (tm).
I wouldn't expect the existing codes to change much, but we're still very
much in the development phase, so some changes will probably be required.
It will certainly be augmented to support the needs of C++, and I'm
interested in feedback about the needs of g95.
> Jason, are you going to create texinfo documentation for this IL,
> something like the docs about C trees? Or if you have it as plain text,
> I can make texinfo docs from them if you like.
I plan to. I've been pretty sloppy so far in order to get this stuff
working ASAP. Now that it's working reasonably well, I plan to work on
cleaning it up and documenting it properly.
Jason