da Silva, Joe wrote:
From: Matthias Klose [SMTP:doko@cs.tu-berlin.de]
and will probably get some serious priority, after gpc-2.1 is released.
did you volunteer working on it?
No, this is just from the recent discussions about gcc-3 compatibility on this list (eg., Frank's posting of Fri 15/02/02 17:47).
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I am *not* going to do the bulk of the work. Though I see some advantages in advancing to gcc-3, there are many more important issues for me to work on. The same probably applies to Peter -- except for the really difficult parts (which he'll probably have to do since he's the only one who can do them).
So whether and when it gets some "serious priority" depends to a large extend on whether/when someone else will volunteer to help.
Unfortunately, my expertise in GPC's inner workings and compilers in general is very poor, as I have mentioned on a previous occasion. I hope some day this will improve.
Perhaps this is a good chance to improve it. Most of the jobs I've described in <200202150646.HAA04772@@goedel.fjf.gnu.de> don't require knowledge of the internals, and in fact one might get some knowledge while doing them (provided, of course, one is not allergic to seeing some C code ;-).
Frank