frontends.html

[Peter Gerwinski]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> A while ago I added http://gcc.gnu.org/frontends.html to solve the problem
> that there seemed to be no links from gcc.gnu.org to non-integrated front
> ends such as GNAT and GPC.
> 
> Given the recent discussions on GNAT, it might be useful if maintainers of
> non-integrated front ends could (a) check the entries for their front ends
> in frontends.html for accuracy and

The information given about GNU Pascal (just the link to our WWW
pages;-) is correct.

> (b) add information about whether their
> front ends work with current GCC CVS,

It doesn't, but I am currently working on it.

> whether they are planned to be
> integrated into GCC,

Yes.

> what the obstacles to integration are

Massive changes in the interface between frontend and backend since
gcc-2.95.x require some adaption in the frontend.

> and any ideas
> of the timescale, etc.

I think it's a matter of some few weeks.  [However when starting
with this I thought it were a matter of some few days ...:-]

    Peter

-- 
http://home.pages.de/~Peter.Gerwinski/ - G-N-U GmbH: http://www.g-n-u.de
Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - gpc-20001017
GnuPG key fingerprint: 9E7C 0FC4 8A62 5536 1730 A932 9834 65DB 2143 9422
keys: http://www.gerwinski.de/pubkeys/ - AntiSpam: http://spam.abuse.net