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Re: GSoC ideas

From: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
To: Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu dot com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, gcc at gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:24:52 -0700
Subject: Re: GSoC ideas
References: <20080329195526.GA20259@thorin> <m3prtdq724.fsf@google.com> <20080330104527.GB3353@thorin>

Robert Millan wrote:

Hi Ian,

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:28:19PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

However, I think a C# frontend would be too much work for one student during the summer.
Do you think it can be broken down?  My understanding of compilers is very
narrow (although I expect to improve it at some point).
Maybe a subset of the syntax could be defined by a set of test cases?

One possibility would be to write a CLR front-end (probably similar in scope to the gcj's java bytecode front-end). That way you could use existing (C#,C++,VB...) --> CLR compilers. This would kill the entire .NET bird with one stone.

Since there is perhaps a larger effort required to implement the runtime support you would still have a lot of work to do after the basic compiler was implemented.

David Daney

References:
- GSoC ideas
  - From: Robert Millan
- Re: GSoC ideas
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: GSoC ideas
  - From: Robert Millan

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