On 1/4/21 11:01 PM, Eric Gallager via Gcc wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:13 AM David Edelsohn via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:29 AM Nala Ginrut via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
>> 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 trivial work to make it work with the latest GCC
>>> at that time.
>>> Of course there are 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?
>>> Last time I assigned the copyright paper, I noticed that the paper
>>> mentioned the project name. But Rust-GCC hasn't been recognized by GCC
>>> community yet, so I'm not sure if it's the correct time to consider this
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Comments are welcome.
>> As Jeff wrote, the assignment is for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
>> project, not for specific languages. One does /not/ submit separate
>> assignments for GNU Fortran, GNU C++, GNU Go, GNU Ada, GNU Modula2,
>> etc.
>>
>>
> Speaking of Modula2, has that frontend made it into mainline GCC yet? I see
> there was a bugzilla component for it added, but I don't remember seeing
> anything about it in the changes.html file for any existing releases...
No. I haven't seen anyone even trying in a while.
jeff
