Thanks Camm On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:04 -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! > > All of thes ework in cvs head: > > BTW, are you interested in helping with the long-standing goal or > porting gcl as a new gcc front end for common lisp? >
I am currently using gcl to build a front end for gcc, for the language COBOL. That is my priority now. I have left my job and I'm working full time on this. There are three objectives in this project 1. Become a highly skilled lisp programmer. 2. Produce the COBOL compiler. 3. Proof of concept of lisp as a highly productive programming environment. Once I have that done, I would probably like to contribute to GCL in some way. Potentially making GCL into a GCC front end would be one option. I don't know if that would be useful, or not. There may also be potential to generate better code and better debugging information. I think, again without much research, that the next priority for gcl might be ANSI compliance, or perhaps more comprehensive compiler and runtime diagnostics. But I would be discussing the priorities with others before embarking on anything. As for the code generation, gcl generates pretty good code as far as I can see. For example, for "CASE" with fixnum variable and constant test values, it generates a fast switch statement. Most of the other free lisps don't seem to do that. Regards, Tim Josling _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
