[cfe-commits] [RFC and PATCH] Fortran

[Douglas Gregor]

On May 4, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:08:20 -0700
> Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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. 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.

I think this subproject should exist at the top level (llvm/tools/<project>) rather than being inside the Clang build. It can still depend on Clang libraries, of course.

> If we're on the same page, then I'll update my driver/lexer patch to
> reflect this upcoming configuration.

I agree that this is the right way to go.

	- Doug