Re: Adding other languages to GCC (was, using GCC for back-end)

moss@cs.cmu.edu (Eliot Moss)
Fri, 5 Feb 1993 16:38:53 GMT

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From: moss@cs.cmu.edu (Eliot Moss)
Keywords: modula, GCC
Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)
References: 93-02-011 93-02-050
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 16:38:53 GMT

The Modula-3 front end also generates trees. Because M3 allows arbitrary
use before definition, the front end is actually two pass, to resolve
identifier bindings properly. If other languages would benefit from such
two pass processing in the front end, they can use our code as a model
(once we release it :-) .... Eliot
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