Re: Front end best practice in GCC 4.1.0?

2006-03-31 Thread Rafael Espíndola
> You know, I've always wondered why there wasn't a lisp-family front end > for GCC, the roots of GNU and RMS being where they are (and didn't RMS > promise way back when to make lisp suitable for unix systems > programming?). I'm just not connected enough to the lisp world to know > the answer I

Re: Front end best practice in GCC 4.1.0?

2006-03-29 Thread Dustin Laurence
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:10:25PM -0300, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > Two friends and I have started to write a toy scheme front end. You know, I've always wondered why there wasn't a lisp-family front end for GCC, the roots of GNU and RMS being where they are (and didn't RMS promise way back when

Re: Front end best practice in GCC 4.1.0?

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Dustin" == Dustin Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dustin> The question is, which front ends are regarded as being good Dustin> exemplars of style in GCC 4 and which are burdened with legacy Dustin> code that shouldn't be duplicated in a new project? I gather Dustin> that at one time t

Re: Front end best practice in GCC 4.1.0?

2006-03-29 Thread Rafael Espíndola
On 3/29/06, Dustin Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm fiddling around with a GCC 4 front-end tutorial that would be more > detailed and hands-on than anything I've found so far on the web. It's > a bit like the blind leading the blind, but it makes me learn better and > while I'm learning i

Front end best practice in GCC 4.1.0?

2006-03-29 Thread Dustin Laurence
I'm fiddling around with a GCC 4 front-end tutorial that would be more detailed and hands-on than anything I've found so far on the web. It's a bit like the blind leading the blind, but it makes me learn better and while I'm learning it I don't mind writing it up, but after I learn it I've got bet