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Re: [gimplefe] [gsoc16] Gimple Front End Project
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>,Prasad Ghangal <prasad dot ghangal at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,sandeep at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:43:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: [gimplefe] [gsoc16] Gimple Front End Project
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On March 6, 2016 3:45:37 PM GMT+01:00, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Prasad Ghangal
><prasad.ghangal@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On stackoverflow
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21660563/can-gcc-compile-gimple,
>> they said GIMPLE FE project is dead. Please let me know if I can work
>> on it for gsoc.
>
>I stopped working on GIMPLE FE a long time ago. Even though I'm no
>longer doing any GCC work, this is still one project I would like to
>see completed. Unfortunately, I've been away for long enough that I
>would not be an effective mentor for this project.
>
>I'm sure you'll find enough interest in the GCC community. Several
>folks would be able to mentor you with this.
I'll be willing to mentor this. Though I'd rather have us starting from scratch and look at having a C-like input language, even piggy-backing on the C frontend maybe.
Richard.
>
>Diego.