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Re: [tree-ssa] Building GENERIC trees cont.


Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:

>> >When I was doing the fortran frontend I created an empty frontend that was
>> >hardcoded to compile "void foo{return 0;}". Once this worked I started
>> >plugging in the actual frontend implementation. I'm afraid I never kept
>> > this skeleton frontend (actually there were several:).  It would have
>> > bitrotted beyond usefulness anyway.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be useful to have some code available for compiler authors
>> to start
>> with when building their own front end? Having a fairly complete framework
>> to start with would make starting a new front end a much lower-cost
>> (time) project
>> than it is currently.
>
> That was the idea of treelang. However no-one maintained it, so it was 
> removed.

Treelang is still there in GCC mainline and maintained by Tim Josling,
isn't it?

Andreas
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