GSoC ideas

[David Daney]

Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:28:19PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>   
>
>> However, I think a C# frontend would be too much work for one student
>> during the summer.
>>     
>
> Do you think it can be broken down?  My understanding of compilers is very
> narrow (although I expect to improve it at some point).
>
> Maybe a subset of the syntax could be defined by a set of test cases?
>
>   
One possibility would be to write a CLR front-end (probably similar in 
scope to the gcj's java bytecode front-end).  That way you could use 
existing (C#,C++,VB...) --> CLR compilers.  This would kill the entire 
.NET bird with one stone.

Since there is perhaps a larger effort required to implement the runtime 
support you would still have a lot of work to do after the basic 
compiler was implemented.

David Daney