Re: Quick C--

 > As a complete newcomer, I am idly curious about a bit of history, and I
 > wonder if someone can enlighten me on this.
 > 
 > It seems clear that the focus of implementation attention today is on
 > the "Quick C--" implementation. I am curious if a C-- front end for GCC
 > was ever contemplated. If so, I would be interested to know why this
 > approach was not pursued.

It was contemplated, and we were discouraged from doing this by people
who understand the gcc development model and code base much better
than we do.

I do have an undergraduate student who, as a final-year project, will
try to translate C-- into C with gcc extensions, using the
code-generation technology developed by Simon Peyton Jones and Simon
Marlow for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.  We'll see how it goes :-)


Norman


P.S. I'm pleased to see all the traffic on the mailing list and will
try to respond once a couple of deadlines have passed.