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Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
> To: "Levon Haykazyan" <levon@rock.com>
> Cc: "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@google.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:57:00 +0200
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:49:32 +0500
> "Levon Haykazyan" <levon@rock.com> wrote:
> > Thank you for your answer. I though I should ask GSoC related questions
> > here. Anyhow, I am interested, and for me that's enough to implement it.
> > But I decided to write the entire compiler from scratch. I couldn't
> > resist writing a compiler in the same language :)
> 
> You probably could write the front-end part of your compiler in Oberon,
> and generate Gimple representation (perhaps even in textual form, since
> some people are working on a Gimple "front-end"). You then win all the
> optimization & code generation abilities of GCC.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Regards
> 
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>

Hi Basile,

That is actually a very good suggestion, thank you. I'll think about
implementing a GIMPLE back-end.

Kind regards,
Levon


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