8-Mar-00 12:22 you wrote:
On 8 Mar 00, at 9:58, Mark Taylor wrote:
If successfull, I would then be in a position to offer my services in helping with further development of the compiler. Something I would be interested in would be recoding GPC in Pascal (I am sure this would make it easier for more people to contribute their help) - would this be feasible, or does GPC *have* to be coded in C for some reason?
Yes. AFAIK all GNU compilers *have* to be coded in C. Large parts of the GPC runtime library are of course coded in Pascal.
This is not true. GNAT (GNU-NYU Ada Translator) is coded in Ada. This is disaster: if you want to bootstrap GNAT you need not only C compiler but also Ada compiler so insted of just plain compilation you are effectively forced to play tricks with cross-compilation and such in case of non-standard (for GNAT) platform :-/ GPC is not easy to compile as it is and recoding on Pascal will make sutiation MUCH worsier ...