Pascal front-end integration

[Andrew Pinski]

On Mar 1, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Marcin Dalecki wrote:

>
> 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.

Actually I disagree with you GPC is much smaller than Java, and doing 
full converage
for a large project like GCC is sometimes a hard thing to do anyways.  
In fact it
is even harder than you thing, especially with code added (in reload) 
to do any
full coverage.  Who cares it gets slower or more impractical to do what 
you are doing
as it gives really more coverage to GCC and the middle-end more than 
any doing nothing.

I don't know why I replied to this thread but I did.  Well I think we 
should  have
no more on this thread unless it is about technical reasons why GPC 
cannot be
included, or political (FSF/SC decides it is not a good thing).

-- Pinski