[cfe-commits] [RFC and PATCH] Fortran

[Chris Lattner]

On May 3, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Hal Finkel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> In order to support our users who have Fortran codes, I would like to
> start working on adding Fortran support into clang. While at first this
> may seem like an odd fit, I think that it should work well for two
> reasons:

FWIW, I don't think that this makes sense from a community standpoint.

If you're serious about building a fortran frontend (which would be really really cool).  I think we should start it as another LLVM subproject.  It can certainly build off and use the Clang "liblex" to get the preprocessor etc, and taking changes to support Fortran into the clang tree would be perfectly fine.

-Chris