Re: Pascal front-end integration

[Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>]

On 2005-03-02, at 03:22, Ed Smith-Rowland wrote:

> On 1 Mar 2005 at 8:17, James A. Morrison wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >   I've decided I'm going to try to take the time and cleanup and 
> > update
> >   the
> > Pascal frontend for gcc and try it get it integrated into the upstream
> > source. I'm doing this because I wouldn't like to see GPC work with 
> > GCC
> > 4+. I don't care at all at supporting GPC on anything less than GCC 
> > 4.1
> > so I've started by ripping out as much obviously compatibility code 
> > as I
> > can and removing any traces of GPC being a separate project.
>
> My guess is that inclusion of Pascal into gcc would give that language
> more exposure and would lead to faster development.

I object it. There is no single application of importance in pascal for 
me
other then TeX, which GPC doesn't handle anyway. It's not worth the 
bandwidth for me and
like java it's another candidate which will drag a ton of library 
framework with
itself later on. Like java it would significantly impede any attempt to 
do full coverage
builds of the whole compiler tree.