gnubol: Cobol for GCC Progress Report

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

I have now succeeded in integrating the parser with the GCC code
generation back end and generated some code. This took me about
3-4 months to achieve. The portion of Cobol currently supported
is miniscule but adding new function should be pretty easy now. I
have one difficult thing to do first which is to upgrade to the
new GCC memory management setup (garbage collection). This will
probably take a few days.

My plan then is to get a subset of Cobol going which would allow
Cobol programmers to contribute to the project. 

I have uploaded the code to my Web site
http://www.geocities.com/timjosling/cobol.html. The main module
of
interest is cobcbei.c.

I have also uploaded updated documentation
http://www.geocities.com/timjosling/cobol_toc.html, inlcuding
some additions to Joachim Nadler's guide to integrating to the
GCC back end.

I hasten to add this is not a useable product as yet.

Tim Josling

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