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Re: {Many thanks for the binutils package}




>    The Modula-2 compiler has been publically available for over three years
>    now, sadly the back end is not based on gcc though. The Modula-2 compiler,
>    ismene simulator (abstract machine) is all GPL'd. The compiler generates
>    ismene code, and i*86 code with pentium optimizations.
>
>
>
> It seems to me that the right thing to do is to convert this Modula-2
> compiler into a GCC front end.  Would you be interested in working on
> that--or at least, would you cooperate with doing it that way?

yes, you're right and yes I'd be interested in helping to do this
work. Which release of gcc should I examine? Perhaps looking at
GNU ADA would be a good starting point?

cheers Gaius
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