gccgo: A gcc frontend for Go, a new programming language

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
> 
>> [...]  Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed
>> by a small group at Google.  [...]  The frontend is written in, yes,
>> C++. [...]
> 
> Neat.  Are there any plans to have a front-end written in its own
> language (and use the current C++ one only for bootstrapping)?
> 

My feeling is that Google's Go (quite a nice language from the slides I just have read) is almost "canonically" the case 
for a front-end plugin.

That is, gccgo could be the following shellscript
   #! /bin/sh
   gcc -fplugin=gofrontend.so $*
and of course we need to add into gcc-4.5 the few plugin hooks to make that easy.

Regards.


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