Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
I believe that Kiril mentioned in a separate post the equation
(mcs | csc | cscc) & gcc & libJIT == LLVM ?
I tend to believe that Kiril dreams of building a CLI/.NET
infrastructure and VM which uses all the powerful optimisations of GCC.
For reference to Kiril: do you know that there exist some branches of
GCC (I believe it was contributed by STMicro guys) which are able to
1. Parse (as a front-end) the CLI bytecode and generate the Gimple IR
from it
2. Parse C# (as a front-end) and generate the Gimple IR from it
3. Provide a backend which spills CLI bytecode from Gimple IR (without
using the backend infrastructure of GCC, but "replacing" it).
Maybe these branches could satisfy some of Kiril dreams (which I still
did not understood exactly).
the CLI BE/FE branch (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cli.html) has seen little
progress lately mostly because we have been 'redirected' to another project but
we're still trying to push it forward and we have recently applied a few patches
that make it quite usable for compiling C code and running the resulting CLI
binaries under Mono. We support emitting CLI from GIMPLE and using CLI as a
source language (though the front-end hasn't been tested for a while now
unfortunately). We haven't written a C# front-end though, but maybe somebody
else tried. That would end up as something very different from what we've been
doing in the CLI branch (i.e. something more like gcj).
