On 24 June 2013 17:02, Luca Saiu <posit...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello Iain. I'm adding ghm-discuss in Cc. I think we shouldn't follow > up on gcc@ any more at this point. Let's not bother the hardworking > compiler masters :-). > > On 2013-06-24 at 01:15, Iain Buclaw wrote: > >> I did a similar such talk at DConf 2013 with my GCC front-end for the >> D programming language (GDC). Not sure if would be relevant a GCC >> conference, but I could think about some of the challenges I've faced. >> :o) > > I for one would be very interested. > > Well, the conference is about GNU in general, so many people will not be > particularly familiar with GCC internals. I, for example, have some > knowledge about the general architecture but don't actually know the > API, and have never attempted any non-trivial modification to the GCC > source base. Some people will be more familiar than me, others even > less; but I don't think that it's a serious problem if a few talks are > less accessible than others. I like Einstein's phrase "as simple as > possible, but not simpler". If needed we can make a GCC session or an > "advanced" session, and schedule all such talks close together for the > public's sake. > > Your talk could follow Philip's, I suppose, since if I understood > correctly Philips wanted to talk about frontends in general, and you > more specifically about the frontend of D. What do you think, Philip? > We can certainly have both talks, but I think it would be better if we > tried not to say the same things twice. >
My talk at Dconf2013 can be bulleted into the following: - What is GDC? - A brief history of porting the D language to GCC. - D language and library support, including current challenges being faced. - Introduction to GCC, in particular an overview of the compilation process from GENERIC down to RTL and how things tie in with the D front end. - Taking advantage of the GCC backend. What features of GCC are leveraged by the D front end (eg: builtin functions, extended assembler) - Future goals and architecture support. >> In any case, I would be interested in attending this - just to get a >> better feel of the community, as a definite future goal would be to >> get the D front-end merged into GCC proper as an officially supported >> language. > > Of course, welcome. I've registered you and added your talk to the > web page. Please register to ghm-discuss at > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ghm-discuss . > Have registered myself. I'll have to confirm my availability. Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
