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Discussion about merging Go frontend into GCC

• maximilian 16y ago
  Is this a result of the refactoring of gcc for >4.5 such that it supports a more plugin style/modular architecture? It would seem that targeting gcc's intermediate representation and using its optimizers and backend would be a powerful paradigm for a language creator. I'm using LLVM for this in my own hobby project, but it'd be interesting to see how I could also use gcc instead.
  • nimrody 16y ago
    No. It's a result of Ian Taylor being part of the Go team and the gcc team. To the best of my knowledge, the gccgo frontend is not written as a gcc plugin.