Re: Newbie to creating front ends to gcc

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>]

On 15-Jul-2001, David Henningsson <a@davidh.df.lth.se> wrote:
> Right now I'm trying to understand that tree code.
> 
> I think I need a simple example of how to create a tree.

See <http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html>,
in particular "Example and Toy compilers for current snapshot".

See also the "Writing a Compiler Front End" chapter of
"Using, Maintaining and Enhancing COBOL for the GNU Compiler
Collection (GCC)".

> I'm running GCC 2.95.3 at the moment as that is what goes with DJGPP.

That is quite out-of-date with respect to current sources, unfortunately.
To save yourself effort, I'd strongly recommend using GCC 3.0 or a recent
development snapshot.

If you're stuck with using Windows, that may make things a little more
difficult.  I don't know whether 3.0 or recent development snapshots
work with DJGPP, but I think they probably do work with Cygwin.

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