Re: TOY

[Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>]

I am still working on getting 'toy' ready to include in gcc. We
found a problem with copyright assignment so I have had to redo
some code. The changes to support gcc 2.95 were done by Jonathan
Bartlett who does not yet have a copyright assignment.

In addition toy exercises very little of gcc/tree and does not
readily extent to exercise more of it, so I have been working to
create a framework based on toy to allow more features to be
showcased. This is a kind of subset of C, but implementing only
features that are directly supported in gcc/tree. I am calling
the new language 'treelang'. All the tree related code is in one
file, in modular functions that do 'one thing'. This will assist
using it as a cookbook.

Initially it will not do much but extra functions can easily be
added.

The documentation will be slight but I am planning to rewrite
Joachim Nadler's and my 'Wrtiting a new front end to GCC' later
in the year, and I will be basing it around 'treelang',

Anyone who has concerns with this approach please let me know.

Tim Josling

> 
> 
> I will do a patch. I already have a small test suite. I will need
> to add some doumentation which I will do shortly. Plus I will
> walk through it and make it coding standard compliant. I need a
> small project as I am stuck in the cobol compiler on 'abbreviated
> combined relational conditions' (designed by the person who
> invented trigraphs, on a bad day).
> 
> My target is end of this weekend.
> 
> My copyright assignment is in place - and toy was originally by
> Richard Kenner so it should be OK. 
> 
> Tim Josling
>