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The beauty of this idea is that a simple yet completely servicable integration can be had with very little effort by simply tacking on the gcc C frontend to the end of GCL's compiler. We can then incrementally have the compiler emit gcc 'trees' directly in certain circumstances. What we gain here is more than optimization, I think. We gain mindshare and support resources for lisp going forward. There was quite a bit of interest in this project from regular gcc contributers when I last suggested it -- it would be great to be able to lever some of their outstanding expertise in the service of lisp. I don't forsee any undue difficulties, apart from the complexity that any such project would entail. But really, its all just an I/O filter :-). I'll do it myself eventually if time permits, but ansi compliance comes first. Take care, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Em Wed 08 Jun 2005 04:30, Jay Sulzberger escreveu: > > I think this a serious project, not small, and some variants well worth > > doing. > A full merge is a very big project. It would be nice to use the boehm garbage > collector (already in use in gcj generated code and gcc itself) and a new > gmp. > > What I think is doable is to integrate the build system and then start > converting the C code generation with GENERIC trees generation. > > > I think there has been some decent public discussion of possible > > difficulties here. > > Do you have some interesting pointers? I would love to see them, even if they > refer to old gcc versions. > > > oo--JS. > > Rafael > _______________________________________________ > Gcl-devel mailing list > Gcl-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
