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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] gcc split
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:53:04 +0200

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:43:27PM +0200, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
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> In the past it was suggested (by Hamish?), that gcc should be split into a
> series of front-ends.
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> The new release of gcc might be a good time to do this.
>
> we could have gcc-c, gcc-ada, gcc-f77, gcc-pascal, gcc-java, etc
>
> gcc-c would include C and C++ and be part of the base system. everyting
> else
> would be optional. We would need to track down all the spells which depend
> on any of these and update their DEPENDS accordingly.

If you manage to split it up with everything working, i'm all for it :)

> Doing this, we could even have gcc-c at 3.3.2 and gcc-f77 at 3.4?

I don't think that's possible, as all gcc stuff shares the same backend,
and i don't think it's a good idea to mix frontend and backend versions.

> Any thoughts?
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>
> Regards, Treeve
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