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I am research student in Ireland and I have been working on this problem for a while now, I have spent a couple of months getting to grips with gcc internals, (by the time I finish this project I might not have any hair left on my head ;o). > Hello all, > > I've been investigating the possibility of creating a MACHINE > DESCRIPTION (aka BACK-END) for GCC to target PARROT. My thinking is > this: If a satisfactory GCC back-end targeting PARROT is created -and- > PARROT is efficient enough (which from reading the documentation thus > far produced seems like it is an inevitable conclusion) then GCC could > compile itself to PARROT byte-code giving PARROT (and the whole open > source community) a PARROT self-host compiler which compiles multiple > languages (C#, C++, C, Pascal, Objective-C, Java, etc, etc, etc) to the > PARROT runtime. > > Is a complete non-starter, or is this something which has > possibilities? Please give your expert opinions. I have managed to create a token backend for parrot so far, nothing really great, (ie does not work at the moment). I hope to have a prototype ready for YAPC::Eu::Belfast in september. I have had my head in the guts of gcc for a while now, so have not been looking at the list. I am aware of the PMC issues, but I am going full steam at the moment, hopefully I will not turn in to a train wreck :o) My main aim is to create the parrot backend, and then have some fun with parrot and jvm. In the next week or two I will put up my research page ( what I have done and what I am doing) on http://www.parrot.cs.may.ie and I will monitor this thread with great interest. Thats all for now. - -- Vishal Vatsa Dept. of Computer Sc. NUI Maynooth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFAkSJCJF0YUd7wiaIRArpYAJ0R4Mf84JRxdjfww3JJwJc2pWfTUgCbBszR iwmDBv1UxqYAbpciVlIqXo4= =m0lK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
