Hi again, On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:27 PM Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote: > > what ever happened to the GDC front-end being contributed to GCC? > (Well, even GNU gm2 [Modula-2] still isn't in trunk ... yet.
Just to (half) answer my own question: * https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2018#gdc * https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2018#modula-2 Unfortunately, only the latter has slides (and two very brief video clips about debugging with GDB). Even another site (blog?) that I frequently visit now seems to mention GNU Cauldron: * http://freepages.modula2.org/ (quoting) " News from the Modula-2 World 09/12/2018 Not only has GNU Modula-2 1.8.2 been released. New Debian packages for x86_64 stable are available as are slides (and video screencasts) from a talk given at the GNU Cauldron 2018. " GM2 supports "ISO Modula-2", aka ISO 10514. The big changes (over PIM) are complex numbers and exceptions (in GM2, compatible with C++). The two optional (standard) extensions support generics and OOP. (No, I don't claim to understand all of that, only the basics.) Actually, this page (for another compiler) better describes the improvements in ISO Modula-2: * https://www.excelsior-usa.com/doc/xds/xc010.html#0451 FYI, Modula-2 is the successor of Pascal (and predecessor to Oberon). Most of the complaints against (classic, aka J&W or ISO 7185) Pascal were fixed. But I still like Pascal and Oberon, too (for different reasons). _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
