> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 13:54
> To: Robert Dubner <rdub...@symas.com>
> Cc: 'Jeff Law' <jeffreya...@gmail.com>; gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org; 'James
K.
> Lowden' <jklow...@cobolworx.com>
> Subject: Re: COBOL: Is anything stalled because of me?
>
> 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.
I am afraid we're going to have to.
>
> 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.
Jim has been taking the lead on documentation. He's eager to get to it.
He's been attending to some pressing family matters that require his
attention.
Thank you very much for the summary.
>
> Jakub
