[cfe-commits] [RFC and PATCH] Fortran

[Chris Lattner]

On May 4, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Hal Finkel wrote:

>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Alright cool, let's do that then. Based on the feedback I've received,
> it seems like it makes the most sense to add Fortran support directly
> into the driver and lexer, and keep everything else as a separate
> subproject. This subproject will have its own Parser, Sema, AST,
> CodeGen, etc. subdirectories.

Sounds good to me.

> If we set this up kind of like clang is
> setup, then the build system will detect whether there is a fortran
> subdirectory in clang, and if so, will build (defining
> CLANG_HAS_FORTRAN or something like that) and link the extra components.

Should "flang" (please come up with a better name! :) be in llvm/tools/flang or in llvm/tools/clang/flang?  I think that the former makes more sense.  These are peer projects, even if one is dependent on the other.

-Chris