Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755828Ab2FJCSo (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:18:44 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:51207 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754923Ab2FJCSn (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:18:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FD40035.2020200@spin.net.au> References: <4FD40035.2020200@spin.net.au> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:18:43 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: gcc compiler modification to cater for new programming language From: Cong Wang To: Chris Jones Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 13 On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > Is it possible to modify the source code of gcc to enable to compilation of > a completely new programming language, as yet unrecognized? How much of a > big job would I be looking at for such a task? Yeah, you need to write a gcc front-end for it. But this is totally off-topic in LKML, you need to go to gcc mailing list. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/