From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gaius Mulley To: rms@gnu.org Cc: raeburn@cygnus.com, gas2@cygnus.com Subject: Re: {Many thanks for the binutils package} Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 05:25:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <95091916021341@glam.ac.uk> <199901121955.MAA29465@wijiji.santafe.edu> <199901121955.MAA29465@wijiji.santafe.edu> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00007.html > The Modula-2 compiler has been publically available for over three years > now, sadly the back end is not based on gcc though. The Modula-2 compiler, > ismene simulator (abstract machine) is all GPL'd. The compiler generates > ismene code, and i*86 code with pentium optimizations. > > > > It seems to me that the right thing to do is to convert this Modula-2 > compiler into a GCC front end. Would you be interested in working on > that--or at least, would you cooperate with doing it that way? yes, you're right and yes I'd be interested in helping to do this work. Which release of gcc should I examine? Perhaps looking at GNU ADA would be a good starting point? cheers Gaius --- Gaius Mulley University of Glamorgan gaius@glam.ac.uk Tel: 01443 482279 "I previously had IE4/NT4 on the same box and by comparison the combination of Linux/Nagivator ran at least 30-40% faster when rendering simple HTML + graphics", Josh Cohen, Microsoft (8/98)