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Re:GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? by oytis on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:38PM (#34057337)
Wonder who had enough motivation and time for Modula-2 work.
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Re:GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? by kmoser on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:21AM (#34061864)
It was definitely Wirth the effort.
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Re:GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? by whartung on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:50AM (#34062493)
I’m not familiar enough with the GCC stack. I’m curious how much effort was necessary for the M2 front end developer to concentrate on efficiency and optimization in contrast to writing something straightforward and having GCC optimize the intermediate form.

I’m sure both components have some responsibility, just curious how much the intermediate form gives the compiler author “for free”.

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