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Re: Source code of CIL back-end
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Roberto COSTA <roberto dot costa at st dot com>
- Cc: GCC mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:06:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: Source code of CIL back-end
- References: <449A67B9.6000501@st.com>
Roberto COSTA wrote:
> Hello,
> last week I announced that, within the R&D division of
> STMicroelectronics I belong to, my team decided to work about a CIL
> back-end for gcc (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-06/msg00420.html).
> After receiving positive feedback and interest about such a back-end, I
> thought it's a good idea to start right now sharing the code and setting
> up a collaborative development environment.
> My preferred way to work is to open a development branch in gcc and to
> make it the official place for the development of the back-end.
> As far as I know, this can't be done until the CIL back-end is approved
> for a possible inclusion in gcc. In the meantime, I opened a project in
> a public repository; this is meant to be temporary, I will dismantle it
> for a gcc development branch.
> By the way, is there any news about the status of the CIL issue?
> I'm sorry to bother the list readers
about this, but whom could I
> directly ask?
As Joe Buck, a Steering Committee member said, you need to talk to RMS
directly and get him to accept the idea, before we can do anything about it.