On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Levon Haykazyan wrote: > Is there an interest in the community in a new front-end?
In general I encourage the addition of front ends for real languages (ones used for real programming, as opposed to ones used solely for being arcane, as examples, etc.) as long as someone is willing to maintain them in the GCC tree (update them as needed for changes to the rest of GCC, etc.) in accordance with GCC's coding standards. This applies both to existing out-of-tree front ends such as Pascal and D, and to new front ends. For a new front end I would encourage implementing it in the way chosen for Ada, Fortran and to a lesser extent Go, where most of the front end uses its own datastructures to represent the program and the part converting to GCC's language-independent representation is self-contained rather than spread around the front end. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
