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> Of course you can write another compiler front-end under the FSF<BR><BR>
It's surprising how similar Ada looks to Modula-3..<BR>
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I've looked into llvm but haven't really got my head around it and/or the cm3 intermediate representation. If I could get my head around the latter I'd really like to try to translate that into C, for better and worse.<BR>
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Gcc relatively recently grew a plugin interface.<BR>
That might be useful to us. Might -- you know, like, we'd say gcc -plugin-something-somesuch *.mc and gcc would load cm3cg.so or somesuch. Potentially m3-sys/m3cc would drop in size dramatically.<BR>
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- Jay<BR><BR> <BR>> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:20:56 +0200<BR>> From: wagner@elegosoft.com<BR>> To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] A question about the M3 licensing...<BR>> <BR>> Quoting hendrik@topoi.pooq.com:<BR>> <BR>> > I suppose there's another possibility -- writing a new M3 front end with<BR>> > a different licence, and being free of SRC forever. Except that if<BR>> > some of our libraries are compiled from SRC source code, will we have to<BR>> > compile at installation tiem to avould distributing mixed GNU/SRC<BR>> > binaries?<BR>> <BR>> I don't think this is correct. The SRC license allows much more than<BR>> the GNU FSF license. That was exactly the stumbling block when it came<BR>> to integrating the M3 extensions to gcc into the gcc distribution.<BR>> The FSF didn't like the way the backend was used in a different process<BR>> context in order to avoid infecting all compiler code with the FSF<BR>> license.<BR>> <BR>> Of course you can write another compiler front-end under the FSF<BR>> license. I'd assume this will take several man-years though until<BR>> you reach the quality of the current system. And any commercial use<BR>> will then be much more difficult, but this is probably moot<BR>> regarding the current widespread user base :-)<BR>> <BR>> Olaf<BR>> -- <BR>> Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH<BR>> Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany<BR>> phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95<BR>> http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin<BR>> Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194<BR>> <BR></body>
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