Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Is there anyone out there?

[Chris M. <cob...@ni...>]

Tim -

Happy New Year!

I'm just back from my extended vacation and I hope you are back as well. If 
you could send me the information on the inspect runtime routines, that 
will enable me to get my head wrapped around what's going on.

As a side note, I am trying to setup two environments simultaneously ... a 
Win32 MINGW / MSYS based  complier environment and also the Linux 
environment that Cobol For GCC is native to. I am hoping to discover where 
the deltas are between the Linux environment and Win32 environment. At the 
same time this is enabling me to learn the structure of GCC and the 
associated tools that are required for Cobol for GCC (such as autogen).

My New Years resolution is to keep a journal on my website of what I've 
learned as I move along ... let's see if I can keep that resolution.

Cheers,

Chris

At 01:52 AM 11/19/2002, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Thanks for the update. It took me six months to get the signoff from my
>employer, hope yours is quicker.
>
>I don't have many tasks on the site. You basically have a choice of a runtime
>routine, or part of the compiler itself. The runtime is the larger part. Some
>is pretty straightforward and some is more complex.
>
>There is a mailing list cobolforgcc-developers but it is not very active -
>people prefer to email me directly for some reason ;-).
>
>My priorities for tasks would be
>
>a) Finish the inspect runtime routines that were partially completed (smallish
>task) OR
>b) Finish the sort/merge runtime (large).
>
>You may well decide to start either one from scratch rather than finish them,
>up to you.
>
>If you want to work on the compiler proper, you need to spend some time
>learning how gcc is structured, then it is just a matter of picking a verb.
>Then you write the parse (cobcprs.tpl) the tree manipulation (cobcast.c) and
>the code generation (cobcbei.c), as well as adding stuff to various header
>files. Even adding the parsing for some verbs would be useful, even without
>code generation.
>
>I will be away from 29 November to mid January. So it would be good to get a
>task agreed before then. I willbe working on it while I am away but
>communications will be difficult.
>
>Regards,
>Tim Josling
>
>Chris Marshall wrote:
> >
> > Tim -
> >
> > Just wanted to give you an update on where I'm at. I've registered myself
> > with FSF, and I'm 90% of the way through getting clearances from my 
> employer.
> >
> > I've been working on getting a stable development environment (somewhat
> > unsuccessfully, but making progress) on GCC 3.2 working on both RedHat
> > Linux 7.2 and the latest copy of MingW on Win32 in a Win2KPro environment.
> > I've retrieved both the Cobol For GCC .tar.gz file from SourceForge as well
> > as the current CVS codeline per the instructions on project website.
> >
> > I was looking for a list of open tasks on the SourceForge website and I
> > wasn't able to find too much. I didn't know if that was because I wasn't
> > listed as a developer on the project or not and if there were different
> > views for developers vs. visitors.
> >
> > I haven't seen much activity on the cobolforgcc-devel lists. Are there
> > other mailing lists that I should subscribe to keep up with the status /
> > activities of the project?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris