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Re: [open-cobol-list] New on the list and some questions ..
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Re: [open-cobol-list] New on the list and some questions .. |
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Tue Nov 2 23:24:40 2004 |
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Lars Segerlund a écrit :
Hi I'm new on the opencobol list, and thought that I should present myself.
I have been doing a little gcc hacking, ( frontend ), but not much, and now I
am interested in COBOL.
Basicly I thought I'd have a look at the code and follow the list for a while
to see if there is anything that I can do.
I have basicly two questions, the first is openCOBOL aiming for gcc inclusion ?
and secondly what is the current status of open COBOL ( ie. is it usable for a
project right now ? ).
Depends on what you mean by gcc inclusion. Keisuke created a version
called gcc-cobol which was based on gcc 3.3 and OC 0.12.
One of my goal is to upgrade gcc-cobol (renaming it Gobol as per a
suggestion of Mark Hahn) to the latest gcc release and the current
run-time of OC. At that point, we have two options:
1a) try to make it the "official GNU Cobol" project ==> chasing all
copyleft if at all possible (I'll talk about that aspect in another
thread in a few days)
1b) leave it outside the GCC, as an add-on (as it is currently).
2) We maintain only one run-time, but two compilers OC and Gobol (I
think there is a need for both)
The ideal, would be that TinyCOBOL changes towards the cleaner run-time
interface, and then we could merge the two run-times (we can always dream).
I started such a move a long time ago, but I had to abandon because of
too may concurrent changes.
But, in any case, I'll be glad to welcome somebody who has experience
with GCC, specially front-end.
Now there seem's to be a third question that pop's up, is there any
relationship or collaboration between cobol for gcc and openCOBOL ?
There was a tentative made in summer 2003 (AFAIR) between Keisuke and Tim; I'll
let them comment themselves on the subject. But, currently, no.
/ regards, Lars Segerlund.
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