On 1/4/21 3:28 AM, Nala Ginrut via Gcc wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> This mail is about the development of Rust frontend of GCC.
>
> To avoid misunderstanding, please let me introduce Rust-GCC briefly.
> In 2013, Philip Herron had announced the project in GCC mailing-list:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2013-12/msg00017.html
> In 2019, @SimplyTheOther had contributed the almost complete parser and
> AST.
> And I helped to do some trival work to make it work with the latest GCC
> at that time.
> Of course there're more contributors that I can't mention one by one.
> At that time, a small community of Rust-GCC had formed. We're interested
> in continuing it till it can be merged into GCC.
> https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs
> So this is the brief history.
>
> Now we have a question, when should we assign copyright paper for GNU?
As soon as possible.
> Last time I assigned the copyright paper, I noticed that the paper
> mentioned the project name. But Rust-GCC hasn't been recogonized by GCC
> community yet, so I'm not sure if it's the correct time to consider this
> issue.
ISTM that the assignment should be for "gcc" since presumably the final
goal is to get the Rust front-end integrated into GCC, right?
jeff
