Hey all On 24 June 2010 17:06, Andi Hellmund <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But, as Philip already said, we're working on a more complete front-end > for demonstration purpose and for documentation purpose of the front-end > infrastructure. Yeah but yeah if your working on a front-end don't be afraid to ask us questions any time its nice to have more people interested in developing GCC front-ends. In fact it would be great to simply share the experiences. GCC the more and more I've worked with it, the interfaces and structures you get to work with to build a front-end are actually really powerful and you get access to all the lovely optimizations gcc will do. Its just a pity there was no documentation prior to this but that's what were working on :). But yeah as I said Front-ends to look at now that you have a 'skeleton' would be mine: http://code.redbrain.co.uk/cgit.cgi/gcc-dev/tree/?h=python GccGO: http://code.redbrain.co.uk/cgit.cgi/gcc-dev/log/?h=gccgo Fortran's front-end is ok in some cases but really i only found it helpful in getting the bare bones together. But once you get a parser down to some kind of AST for your language your going to have to spend a lot of time looking how GENERIC works its really powerful but quite confusing. I think what is confusing when reading through other front-end code its sometimes hard to tell whether the code is calling tree API code or if it is front-end specific code, since the tree api is not prefixed with anything. --Phil
