Re: Where is p2c called?

[john o goyo]

Greetings, Gaius.

On 2021-06-28 07:24, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> in which release of gm2 are you searching?  p2c was replaced by mc 
> circa 2017.  In releases prior to Sept 2017 p2c should be available
> in gcc/gm2/p2c.  If you see the directory gcc/gm2/mc and no p2c then 
> definitely mc had replaced p2c.  There was a brief time when both were 
> available.  mc is (now) vastly better though - it generates much 
> neater C or C++ and understands pim4 with many gm2 extensions.

I started with p2c because it seemed to be simpler.  Given your 
comments, I will investigate mc instead.

> The file gcc/[g]m2/Make-lang.in contains the rules to build gm2.  In 
> the rules to build  gm2-libs-boot/%.o  or gm2-compiler-boot/%.o
> you'll find either the p2c commands or the mc commands depending upon 
> the release of gm2.

Ah -- looking at gcc/m2/Make-lang.in, I saw that "gmake mc-help" in the 
gcc Makefile gave me the targets and "gmake -n mc-continue" gave me the 
dependencies needed.

> hope this helps,

Very much so, thank you.

Sincerely,
john

> regards,
> Gaius