Greetings, and thanks for your interest! There really is very little standing in the way of such a project but time and other relative priorities. Ansi support/compliance, performance, and bit rot maintenance have always been higher in the queue. But the closeness of lisp and C in the current compiler means almost all of the heavy work has already been done. A nice tutorial on gcc's internal interface, which is basically also lisp as I understand it, would be helpful.
Such a project could pay dividends beyond aesthetics -- GCL does pay a performance penalty for firing up the whole gcc tree over and over again for jobs that are essentially incremental compiles. While our runtime is very competitive, our compile time is among the slowest. While I have not followed the matter extensively, I have this vague sense that other front end projects have not fared so well, nor stood the test of time. True? If so, does this merely reflect the paucity of developers familiar with the gcc interface? Take care, "Garreau, Alexandre" <galex-...@galex-713.eu> writes: > Hi, > > Some time ago I was discussing with a friend about the number of > redundancy and turing-complete language implementation (33~37) software > project in GNU, especially lisp (~9), and came the question of what was > could and did use as a gcc frontend, and I found all these threads about > the amazing idea of gcl being integrated as a gcc frontend. > > These threads were from years ago, and I’m asking myself: what’s the > status of the current situation? has anything be done in this direction? > if not why? > > _______________________________________________ > Gcl-devel mailing list > Gcl-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel