Re: Inquiry: GCC front-end requirements

[James E Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>]

Slawomir Lisznianski wrote:
> Although our project is in its incubation stage, we would like to
> inquiry about the requirements for a front-end to be part of the GCC
> distribution.

There is a page on our web site with information about contributing patches.
    http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
These are mainly the usual GNU requirements.  Use of GNU coding style. 
FSF copyright assignments for all contributors who added non-trivial 
patches.  Testing.  Etc.

The same rules would apply to a larger project, like a front end.  There 
would likely be an additional requirement of some kind promise to 
maintain it.  We are unlikely to accept the burden of maintaining 
support for a language we don't use.  So if it breaks, we will just 
remove it if there is no one maintaining it.  Since gcc internals change 
almost continually, front ends get broken pretty regularly, and require 
constant maintenance.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com