Roberto COSTA wrote: > Hello, > last week I announced that, within the R&D division of > STMicroelectronics I belong to, my team decided to work about a CIL > back-end for gcc (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-06/msg00420.html). > After receiving positive feedback and interest about such a back-end, I > thought it's a good idea to start right now sharing the code and setting > up a collaborative development environment. > My preferred way to work is to open a development branch in gcc and to > make it the official place for the development of the back-end. > As far as I know, this can't be done until the CIL back-end is approved > for a possible inclusion in gcc. In the meantime, I opened a project in > a public repository; this is meant to be temporary, I will dismantle it > for a gcc development branch. > By the way, is there any news about the status of the CIL issue? > I'm sorry to bother the list readers about this, but whom could I > directly ask?
As Joe Buck, a Steering Committee member said, you need to talk to RMS directly and get him to accept the idea, before we can do anything about it.