Sebastian Pop writes:
> I haven't looked at the gccgo branch yet, but have quickly browsed
> over the material at golang.org, and I found no document describing,
> at a high level, the design of the compiler(s) and the runtime of go.
As far as I know there is no such document.
First let me say
Hi Ian,
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:21, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> For the last year and a half I've been working on a gcc frontend for
> Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed by a
> small group at Google. We've just open sourced it. You can read more
> about it at http://g
Basile STARYNKEVITCH writes:
> BTW, I understood perhaps wrongly that Ian Taylor seems to believe
> that gccgo has not much future, and that most of the software written
> in Go (the Google niche language) could be compiled by something which
> is not GCC based.
I certainly hope that gccgo has a
Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
* Looking at other niche languages in the past having had a GCC front-end (D,
Mercury, perhaps some Modula, or Cobol, or Pascal, ...) it seems that most of
them are not accepted in the GCC trunk proper.
No, it's not di
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> * Looking at other niche languages in the past having had a GCC front-end (D,
> Mercury, perhaps some Modula, or Cobol, or Pascal, ...) it seems that most of
> them are not accepted in the GCC trunk proper. As far as I understand, neither
> gcc-4.
Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
* Google Go is still a niche language. And I would guess it is targetted
to Linux & Unix variants (because I heard that Google does not use
Windows on their web-crawling servers, but only Unix variants, mostly
Linux). I really feel that a niche language is exactly
Joe Buck wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:26:36AM -0800, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
My feeling is that Google's Go (quite a nice language from the slides I just have read) is almost "canonically" the case
for a front-end plugin.
I have some major concerns about this suggestion. Isn't this a
f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor writes:
>
>> [...] Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed
>> by a small group at Google. [...] The frontend is written in, yes,
>> C++. [...]
>
> Neat. Are there any plans to have a front-end written in its ow
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
They weren't intended as a way of attaching complete new front ends
or complete new back ends. That was the thing that RMS feared the
most,
and he had at least some justification: would we have a C++ compiler
or
an Objective-C compiler if the
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:26:36AM -0800, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> My feeling is that Google's Go (quite a nice language from the slides I just
> have read) is almost "canonically" the case
> for a front-end plugin.
I have some major concerns about this suggestion. Isn't this a recipe for
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> My feeling is that Google's Go (quite a nice language from the slides I just
> have read) is almost "canonically" the case for a front-end plugin.
Well, if you really wish to impede host portability in several different
ways.
* Use of a plugin
Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Ian Lance Taylor writes:
[...] Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed
by a small group at Google. [...] The frontend is written in, yes,
C++. [...]
Neat. Are there any plans to have a front-end written in its own
language (and use the current
Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> [...] Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed
> by a small group at Google. [...] The frontend is written in, yes,
> C++. [...]
Neat. Are there any plans to have a front-end written in its own
language (and use the current C++ one only for boot
For the last year and a half I've been working on a gcc frontend for
Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed by a
small group at Google. We've just open sourced it. You can read more
about it at http://golang.org/ .
The gcc frontend is called gccgo. I've just committed it t
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