From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
To: Trevor.Jenkins@suneidesis.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Algol front end
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020514135015.BE273F28D1@nile.gnat.com> (raw)
> I believe that the amount of work needed to put either of them within the
> gcc framework is about the same. a68g has a transput implementation closer
> to that of the Revised Report on Algol68. ctrans uses the underlying C
> printf function. Neither implemented the book paradigm or formatted
> output, which is rather like having a C compiler without any printf
> functions or varargs. The parser would need to be interfaced to the new
> tree; something that is going to hamper attempts to bring gpc into the
> fold. Sothis is clearly not soemthing that will make 3.2.
I am amazed that anyone would even consider that this could "make 3.2".
There is a *lot* of work here. Ctrans is a starting point, but only that.
My students this last semester have been working on Algol-68S implementations
in the compiler class (the assignment was to write in Algol-68S, and generate
code for MMIX, and do a full bootstrap -- at least two students already
succeeded in completing the bootstrap :-)
Anyway, that's why I know quite a bit about Ctrans, since quite a few students
used Ctrans as the path to the bootstrap.
next reply other threads:[~2002-05-14 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-14 7:53 Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-05-14 11:15 ` Trevor Jenkins
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-09 13:44 Algol Front End Gaius Mulley
2002-05-08 12:15 Algol Front end Robert Dewar
2002-05-08 11:47 Arthur I Schwarz
2002-05-08 1:36 BCD [was Re: Algol front end] Bonzini Paolo
2002-05-14 2:52 ` Algol front end Lars Brinkhoff
2002-05-14 7:02 ` Trevor Jenkins
2002-05-07 20:12 Algol Front End Robert Dewar
2002-05-07 19:53 Algol Front end Robert Dewar
2002-05-07 16:45 Arthur I Schwarz
2002-05-07 15:15 Robert Dewar
2002-05-07 4:47 Robert Dewar
2002-05-07 13:43 ` Tim Josling
2002-05-07 4:29 Tim Josling
2002-05-06 18:14 Algol Front End Robert Dewar
2002-05-07 6:57 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2002-05-06 16:54 Tony Stratton
2002-05-06 19:23 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2002-05-07 0:47 ` Steven Bosscher
2002-05-07 7:02 ` Paul Koning
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