On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:47:13AM -0500, Robert Dubner wrote: > Speaking purely casually: I thought that that COBOL would be released with > documented limited capability. "Yeah, it works on x86_64-linux and > aarch64-linux. More to come.". We knew that we didn't know how to > cross-compile, and we knew that other platforms would have to come, in time.
What is definitely known not to work is big endian targets, cross compilation from big endian hosts to little endian targets, 32-bit targets, cross compilation from 32-bit hosts, I'm afraid we can live with it for the 15 release. What is still missing are web page updates, the repository in that case is ssh://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc-wwwdocs.git and e.g https://gcc.gnu.org/ lists in News (left column) "Modula-2 front end added [2022-12-14] The Modula-2 programming language front end has been added to GCC. This front end was contributed by Gaius Mulley." so we want something like that for COBOL too, then in https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/changes.html something that COBOL FE has been added and perhaps the limitations for this release. See e.g. https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html which mentioned the addition of Modula-2. Jakub
