Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 15:52:59 -0700 (PDT) From: ".ASM SoftWare Systems" Subject: Info on future enh. to FSF gcc, not djgpp (unoffical providor) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu I spotted this Url: ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/DESCRIPTIONS Feb 8 18:52 text/plain [332]DESCRIPTIONS 65Kb Don't worry, that was someone else who posted 40K to the mailing list, I edited out three items that _may_ affect the source code that is used by 'dj AT delorie DOT com (DJ Delorie)' to make djgpp - the FSF gcc source. The first sounds like a good feature for us, the other sound as though they may be straying from MSDOS even further - A PLOT against us ;> This is the HEAVILY edited version, just a few lines: Forthcoming GNUs **************** * C Interpreter The FSF is adding interpreter facilities to the GNU compiler and debugger. This task is partly finished. GCC now generates byte code (for all supported languages: C, C++ and Objective-C) and another package interprets it. To make this work usable, we need to add features to GDB to load the byte code dynamically. We also would like C compiler support for compiling just a specified few functions in a file. ue to limited resources, the FSF cannot fund this. Interested volunteers should contact `gnu AT prep DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu'. * GAS The GNU assembler is in the process of being rewritten to fully use the BFD library. Currently BFD is used only on some platforms. When this work is finished, porting the entire compiler support suite (GAS and Binutils) to new platforms should be easier. Forthcoming versions will include support for the HP-PA, DEC Alpha (running OSF/1), RS/6000 and PowerPC processors. * GCC New front ends for GCC are being developed, but they are not yet part of GCC. A front end for Fortran is now in alpha test and is approaching completion, and a front end for Ada (GNAT: The GNU Ada Translator) is available via anonymous FTP from `cs.nyu.edu' in `/pub/gnat', though it is not yet stable. News about GNAT is posted to the USENET newsgroup `comp.lang.ada'. Volunteers are also developing a Pascal front end. Ghostscript 3.0 will be released and distributed by FSF in the second quarter of 1995. ------ end -------- When I saw that new Ghostscript was comming I promptly deleted my ten version old one ... Gained 10M ... They claim djgpp is _thier_ version 2.5.8 (for djgpp 2.6.3) if I read correctly. ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/ has 'alpha' versions of gcc. They are not expending great efforts to support MSDOS ;>