Patch for gengtype: support GNU Fortran 95

Diego Novillo dnovillo@redhat.com
Sat Jun 22 15:32:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Steven Bosscher wrote:

> We didn't plan to write our own RTL expander. I thought that in the long
> term all front ends should build a tree of some superset SIMPLE, and
> that there would be a generic expander (simple_expand_body()?) for that.
>
Yes, that's the plan.  As long as you generate and manipulate
SIMPLE trees, we'll be able to deal with them in a language
independent manner.


> Right now g95 is more like an implicit f95toC. We need to link to parts
> of the C front end (c-semantics) to make things work. That somehow feels
> wrong.
> 
If you find yourself needing functions and/or data structure that
now live in FE-specific files, then we should probably think
about moving them out.


Diego.



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