Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] COBOL compiler

[Tim J. <te...@me...>]

Keisuke,

Help is always welcome!

The simplest thing would be to do a small part of the cobol
runtime. I can send you a spec if you like. None of the file IO
has been done, sort-merge is partially done. Please let me know
if you have any preferences. Let's start with something fairly
small and then get more ambitious later on.

It could be helpful for you to give us some information on your
programming background ie what languages you know, (C, COBOL?),
do you know lex/flex and yacc/bison, do you have linux, have you
used gcc, do you know any gcc internals. You don't need to know
all or even most of these to be able to help, of course.

It would also be helpful if you register on sourceforge.net as we
can then track your work in the tasks tracking system.

Thanks,
Tim Josling

Keisuke Nishida wrote:
> 
> At Sat, 26 May 2001 07:29:55 +1000,
> Tim Josling wrote:
> >
> > TC is being written in C, but CB4G will have much of the runtime
> > written in COBOL, using the core compiler subset.
> 
> Why do you need to write the runtime in COBOL?
> Isn't C a better language to write?
> 
> > One approach is to ask for a task from one project and then do
> > it. In free software projects generally there are more talkers
> > than coders but there are enough coders to get a lot done. Even a
> > small contribution is more help than you think!
> 
> Could you tell me a brief summary of what should be done next?
> I am a C programmer and about starting hacking GCC.
> 
> Thanks,
> Keisuke Nishida