RE: [Gomp-discuss] Plan ... coments wanted !

[Steven Bosscher]

Op wo 29-01-2003, om 22:15 schreef Scott Robert Ladd:
> We probably need to define specific goals.

Yes.  And a priority list and a scetchy plan.
 
> For example: Which frontends will we support? gcc and g++, most certainly;
> what about g77? While some people may think g77 is obsolete, many existing
> OpenMP applications are based in Fortran 77. I suggest we target gcc, g++,
> and g77 at a minimum.

Right now G77 expands to RTL in the front end, so it bypasses the
tree-ssa infrastructure.  This makes targeting G77 impossible until
somebody with a lot of time, patience, strong nerves, a big strong heart
and good knowledge of GCC internals and of G77 internals, is willing to
rewrite the whole second pass of the compiler to build functions as
trees.  And all that work for free because last time g77/g95 tried to
get some funding from the GCC and Fortran communities, there was just
silence...  Such people are hard to find I'm afraid.

It's probably easier to extend g95 to allow more f77-style code. 
Actually we were discussing that on the gcc-g95 mailing list this week.

> Do we want to go beyond the define OpenMP languages, and provide extsnions
> for Objective C, Java, and Ada? (I think not)

If we provide a language-independent interface, I don't see why we
couldn't do this.  Especially ObjC, which really is just
C-with-a-few-extra's.  But this should of course not have high priority.

Greetz
Steven