On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Objective Modula-2 wrote:
Frank Heckenbach wrote:
since GPC development has mostly stalled, I've thought about if and how its development could be continued. Here are my current thoughts about it. Since the text is quite long, I put it on the web: http://fjf.gnu.de/gpc-future.html
Although I no longer use Pascal, I would like to make a plea for GNU Pascal to be sustained.
Generating C (or even C++) as an alternative target is certainly a useful feature for any compiler to have but if GPC was to lose its interface to the GCC back-end, I wonder if it would still be GNU Pascal. I believe most people associate GCC back-end support with any compiler that carries the GNU moniker.
Then we need to figure out how to make the syncing of GPC with the GCC back end take much less of Frank's time (or anyone else who might serve as lead developer). Any ideas? Ideally, we'd want the syncing with new versions of GCC to be close to automatic, but it sounds like that's not feasible in the short term.
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