On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:48 AM Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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.
Maybe Jeff is not caught up with his email. The GCC SC previously accepted Modula2 support. Richard Biener approved the patch merge a few days ago and Gaius is planning to proceed. Thanks, David
