Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Oxygen Oberon-2 Compiler - savannah.gnu.org

[Alaska Subedi]

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Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

address@hidden writes:
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Rob Linwood <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Oxygen Oberon-2 Compiler
 > System name: oxygen
 > Type: GNU
 > 
 > Description:
 > Oxygen is going to be a compiler for the programming language Oberon-2, as 
 > designed by Niklaus Wirth.  Currently, Oxygen consists of a scanner and 
 > parser, which parse Oberon-2 source code into a syntax tree.  The goal is to 
 > use the GCC backend; this will require conversion of the internal syntax 
 > tree into GCC's tree format, plus a driver program, lots of code, and lots 
 > more testing.  Ideally, Oxygen will have a full library (the Oberon-2 
 > standard does not have much of a run-time library, although there is an 
 > ad-hoc standard, which is also fairly minimal), a convenient FFI (foreign 
 > function interface - the ability to call functions and methods written in 
 > other languages) for C at the very least (Oberon-2 types like INTEGER and 
 > REAL will map directly to C types where possible) and C++ and Java if it 
 > proves feasible.  Oberon-2 will also require garbage collection, probably 
 > using the Boehm garbage collector.  Oberon-2 is, I think, a better language 
 > than C, with many of
 > C's strengths (small language, small runtime, access to bare-metal, bit 
 > shifting operations, compilation to native code) with many advantages or 
 > newer languages like Java (strong typing, pre-compiled interfaces (akin to 
 > C's header files), extensible object orientation, automatic memory 
 > management).
 > 
 > Oxygen is a long-term project.  I do not expect a real, working release (ie, 
 > a compiler) for some time.
 > 
 > The current source snapshot is at 
 > http://sparkle.yhbt.org/~rob/oxygen-src.tar.gz
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > Oxygen requires slightly more than the standard development toolchain (GCC, 
 > binutils, make), namely flex and GNU bison.
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > 

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Regards,
 
Alaska Subedi 
 


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