Hi José! I intend to provide a few comments to specific code changes that I might have some clue about, later on -- "my later"; ask my wife what span of time that might mean... ;-)
In the following, so far, just a few high-level comments: On 2025-01-01T03:09:44+0100, "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose.march...@oracle.com> wrote: > The parser used in this front-end has been borrowed and adapted from > Algol 68 Genie, an Algol 68 interpreter written by Marcel van der > Veer. It is worth noting that this parser is not your typical garden > variety parser, as it is capable of effectively parsing the two-level > grammar of Algol 68, which is no small deal. Parsing Algol 68 is > notoriously difficult, and without Marcel's careful work of many years > this front-end would most probably not exist. In order to give credit where credit is due, I suggest: have a separate commit with Git author "(J.?) Marcel van der Veer" (possibly "empty" email address: "<>", unless you have permission to use a proper one?), and in that commit add to 'gcc/algol68/' the (still unused) files, verbatim, that you're taking from him/Algol 68 Genie. In a following commit then recast those into the form that you've currently got them. (If you agree to this proposal, and unless you'd like to do it yourself, I'm happy to do the corresponding "Git magic".) In addition to attributing provenance, this would also allow for easier tracking/incorporating of changes to the original files, should that happen. This doesn't seem completely unlikely, given that you're stating "Copyright (C) 2001-2023 J. Marcel van der Veer", which is just two years ago. > All the C and C++ code is formatted following the GNU Coding > Standards. I'm actually not a fan of reformatting imported files, but I guess I don't set the rules there. ;-) > The original parser is copyright Marcel van der Veer. I suppose you've settled the copyright and licensing conditions for this, being able to apply GPLv3+ to it, and all that. > As to where to host the project, the obvious choice is perhaps a > project at sourceware, but it would be nice if we could develop the > front-end in a branch in the GCC git repo (You're now using <https://forge.sourceware.org/jemarch/a68-gcc/src/branch/a68>.) > to have a mailing list > under gcc.gnu.org Yes. Once the front end is accepted into GCC, I suggest you request <algo...@gcc.gnu.org>. (That's probably more expressive than <a...@gcc.gnu.org>?) > and to use a page in the GCC wiki to track the FE > progress... please let me know if that is feasible. (You've already set up <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Algol68FrontEnd>.) Grüße Thomas
