On Sunday 20 November 2005 01:49, Chris Lattner wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Steven Bosscher wrote: > > On Saturday 19 November 2005 18:56, Chris Lattner wrote: > >>> Only the Ada frontend seems to be in a state to maybe support direct > >>> frontend IR to LLVM translation. > >> > >> Sure, also maybe Fortran? > > > > I wouldn't count on it... > > Can you explain what you mean?
I mean it would take a complete re-write of the translation phase from gfortran's native program representation to GENERIC trees. Even if it is "quite possible" to make it write out LLVM directly, it would be a huge job. Basically it would mean a complete rewrite of the gfortran backend, which is IMHO highly undesirable even if it is possible. I for one would not support any project to do this. Gr. Steven
