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Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> 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.
If you want to merge the code into GCC, I don't think using textual GIMPLE
is a good approach; you should use the normal GIMPLE APIs in GCC. But
writing the main part of the front end in its own language, as is done for
Ada (and I think for the Modula-2 front end, another out-of-tree front
end), is fine.
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