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> 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 --- Gaius Mulley University of Glamorgan gaius@glam.ac.uk Tel: 01443 482279 "I previously had IE4/NT4 on the same box and by comparison the combination of Linux/Nagivator ran at least 30-40% faster when rendering simple HTML + graphics", Josh Cohen, Microsoft (8/98)