On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:13 AM David Edelsohn via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:29 AM Nala Ginrut via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> > wrote: > > > > Hi Folks! > > This mail is about the development of Rust frontend of GCC. > > > > To avoid misunderstanding, please let me introduce Rust-GCC briefly. > > In 2013, Philip Herron had announced the project in GCC mailing-list: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2013-12/msg00017.html > > In 2019, @SimplyTheOther had contributed the almost complete parser and > > AST. > > And I helped to do some trivial work to make it work with the latest GCC > > at that time. > > Of course there are more contributors that I can't mention one by one. > > At that time, a small community of Rust-GCC had formed. We're interested > > in continuing it till it can be merged into GCC. > > https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs > > So this is the brief history. > > > > Now we have a question, when should we assign copyright paper for GNU? > > Last time I assigned the copyright paper, I noticed that the paper > > mentioned the project name. But Rust-GCC hasn't been recognized by GCC > > community yet, so I'm not sure if it's the correct time to consider this > > issue. > > > > Comments are welcome. > > As Jeff wrote, the assignment is for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) > project, not for specific languages. One does /not/ submit separate > assignments for GNU Fortran, GNU C++, GNU Go, GNU Ada, GNU Modula2, > etc. > > Speaking of Modula2, has that frontend made it into mainline GCC yet? I see there was a bugzilla component for it added, but I don't remember seeing anything about it in the changes.html file for any existing releases... > Please have all of the developers start the FSF copyright assignment > process now. > > Thanks, David >
