[gimplefe] [gsoc16] Gimple Front End Project

[Richard Biener]

On March 6, 2016 3:45:37 PM GMT+01:00, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Prasad Ghangal
><prasad.ghangal@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On stackoverflow
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21660563/can-gcc-compile-gimple,
>> they said GIMPLE FE project is dead. Please let me know if I can work
>> on it for gsoc.
>
>I stopped working on GIMPLE FE a long time ago.  Even though I'm no
>longer doing any GCC work, this is still one project I would like to
>see completed.  Unfortunately, I've been away for long enough that I
>would not be an effective mentor for this project.
>
>I'm sure you'll find enough interest in the GCC community.  Several
>folks would be able to mentor you with this.

I'll be willing to mentor this.  Though I'd rather have us starting from scratch and look at having a C-like input language, even piggy-backing on the C frontend maybe.

Richard.

>
>Diego.