"James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> writes:

> The following 8 patches constitute the 80 files needed to build and
> document the COBOL front end.  They assume that following exist:
>
>     gcc/cobol/ChangeLog
>     libgcobol/ChangeLog
>
> The messages are grouped by files in a more or less logical order,
> but groups are somewhat arbitrary.  The primary constraint afaik is to
> keep them from getting too big, fsvo $too.  We have:
>
>       460K hdr  header files
>       484K par  the parser
>       760K gen  GENERIC interface
>       556K cbl  other supporting C++ files
>       432K cfg  libgcobol/configure
>       788K lib  libgcobol, all of it
>        72K doc  man pages, for now
>        24K bld  "meta" files, such a gcc/cobol/Make-lang.in
>
> Except for "bld", these all contain new files, can be applied in any
> order.  
>
> If you would like the patches smaller or larger, I'm happy to rearrange
> them.  Some of exceed the 400 KB mail limit, but I'm assured they'll be
> moderated through.  
>

Please use `git send-email` with threading.

> This patchset excludes tests.  While we do have tests, it's not clear
> how or if to add them to gcc.  They use a combination of (largely) 3rd
> party sources and GNU Autotest.

"if" is definitely a yes, as long as licencing for the 3rd party sources
is clear. We already have a mix of different testing frameworks in
there, see e.g. Ada and Go, although ideally you'd have dejagnu wrapping
for it.

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