https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-util/godcc

The tarball godcc-1.0.tar.gz is now available at https://jemarch.net/godcc-1.0.tar.gz.

godcc (https://jemarch.net) is a full-fledged command-line interface to Compiler Explorer instances such as https://godbolt.org. It currently supports getting listings, compiling source files and formatting sources.

Happy godccing!

gemini://capsule.jemarch.net.

The plan, moving forward, is to publish basically the same contents in both www and gemini versions of this homepage.

Salud!

This doesn't mean the work is done. The modules system, which is already functional, needs to be completed and polished, parallel clauses are still to be implemented, and the quality of the generated code should be generally improved. We also want to replace the boehm GC with a tightly integrated customized, exact one, and to continue modernizing and expanding the language, always carefully and respectfully, via GNU extensions: exception handling, FFI, etc.

At this point I would like to thank Marcel van der Veer, Pietro Monteiro, Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor, Thomas Schwinge, Sam James, Matthias Klose, Iain Buclaw, Andrew Pinski, Segher Boessenkool, Iain Sandoe, the GCC global reviewers and the overall GCC community. Without their help, and Marcel's nifty Algol 68 parser, this front-end would simply not exist.

And now, the real fun starts... ;)
Happy algoling!

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-November/701589.html

Since last submission we have added a modules system based on the Modules and Separate Compilation Facility designed by Charles Lindsey and Hendrik Boom and released by the IFIP Working Group 2.1 Standing Subcommittee on ALGOL 68 Support. To our knowledge, this is the first time the modules facility ever gets implemented.

This is the deal:

  Jose E. Marchesi (50):
    a68: top-level misc files
    a68: build system
    a68: build system (regenerated files)
    a68: documentation
    a68: command-line options
    a68: DWARF language codes
    a68: darwin specific support
    a68: powerpc specific support
    a68: gcc/algol68 misc files
    a68: ga68 compiler driver
    a68: a681 compiler proper
    a68: unicode support routines
    a68: front-end diagnostics
    a68: modules exports
    a68: modules imports
    a68: parser: entry point
    a68: parser: AST nodes attributes/types
    a68: parser: scanner
    a68: parser: keyword tables management
    a68: parser: top-down parser
    a68: parser: parenthesis checker
    a68: parser: bottom-up parser
    a68: parser: syntax check for declarers
    a68: parser: standard prelude definitions
    a68: parser: parsing of modes
    a68: parser: symbol table management
    a68: parser: static scope checker
    a68: parser: debug facilities
    a68: parser: extraction of tags from phrases
    a68: parser: dynamic stack usage in serial clauses
    a68: parser: pragmats infrastructure
    a68: low: lowering entry point and misc handlers
    a68: low: plain values
    a68: low: stowed values
    a68: low: standard prelude
    a68: low: clauses and declarations
    a68: low: runtime
    a68: low: builtins
    a68: low: ranges
    a68: low: units and coercions
    a68: low: modes
    a68: libga68: sources, spec and misc files
    a68: libga68: build system
    a68: libga68: build system (generated files)
    a68: testsuite: infrastructure
    a68: testsuite: execution tests 1/2
    a68: testsuite: execution tests 2/2
    a68: testsuite: compilation tests
    a68: testsuite: revised MC Algol 68 test set
    a68: testsuite: mcgt tests
      

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-October/697255.html

This is the deal:

  Jose E. Marchesi (47):
   a68: top-level misc files
   a68: build system
   a68: build system (regenerated files)
   a68: documentation
   a68: command-line options
   a68: DWARF language codes
   a68: darwin specific support
   a68: powerpc specific support
   a68: gcc/algol68 misc files
   a68: ga68 compiler driver
   a68: a681 compiler proper
   a68: unicode support routines
   a68: front-end diagnostics
   a68: parser: entry point
   a68: parser: AST nodes attributes/types
   a68: parser: scanner
   a68: parser: keyword tables management
   a68: parser: top-down parser
   a68: parser: parenthesis checker
   a68: parser: bottom-up parser
   a68: parser: syntax check for declarers
   a68: parser: standard prelude definitions
   a68: parser: parsing of modes
   a68: parser: symbol table management
   a68: parser: static scope checker
   a68: parser: debug facilities
   a68: parser: extraction of tags from phrases
   a68: parser: dynamic stack usage in serial clauses
   a68: low: lowering entry point and misc handlers
   a68: low: plain values
   a68: low: stowed values
   a68: low: standard prelude
   a68: low: clauses and declarations
   a68: low: runtime
   a68: low: builtins
   a68: low: ranges
   a68: low: units and coercions
   a68: low: modes
   a68: libga68: sources, spec and misc files
   a68: libga68: build system
   a68: libga68: build system (generated files)
   a68: testsuite: infrastructure
   a68: testsuite: execution tests 1/2
   a68: testsuite: execution tests 2/2
   a68: testsuite: compilation tests
   a68: testsuite: revised MC Algol 68 test set
   a68: testsuite: mcgt tests
      

This new stropping regime aims to be more appealing to contemporary programmers, and also more convenient to be used in today's computing systems, while at the same time retaining the full expressive power of a stropped language and being 100% backwards compatible as a super-extension.

The stropping regime has been already implemented in the https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Algol68FrontEndGCC Algol 68 front-end and also in the Emacs a68-mode that provides full automatic indentation and syntax highlighting.

The sources of the godcc program have been already transitioned to the new regime, and the result is quite satisfactory. Check it out!

Comments and suggestions for the draft are very welcome, and would help to move the draft forward to a final state. Please send them to algol68@gcc.gnu.org.

Salud, and happy Easter everyone!

For DWARF 5, DW_LANG_Algol68 = 0x44.

For DWARF 6, DW_LNAME_Algol68 = 0x2e with versioning schema YYYY, starting with 1973 for the original Revised language. The language extensions we are working on will be encoded in subsequent versions, 2025 etc.

DWARF issue 250304.1.

https://godbolt.org/z/6s9aqvW4K

On a related note, the demo application that I am using as both as a test and a showcase for the front-end, called godcc, is precisely a full-fledged command-line interface to Compiler Explorer, written in Algol 68. It hopefully shows how powerful, clear, concise and modern the language is.

godcc: a command-line interface to Compiler Explorer

Finally, yesterday support for Algol 68 in Automake got integrated upstream and shall be available at the next release. The corresponding support for Autoconf is still being reviewed in the project's development list. The Emacs a68-mode mode, that provides syntax highlighting and smart indentation of Algol 68 programs, got also added to the ELPA archive. The development of the front-end itself is progressing and soon we shall be able to get it integrated in GCC proper.

GCC Algol 68 front-end development page

Thanks to Marcel van der Veer for his awesome parser, that I took the liberty to borrow from Algol 68 Genie. Free Software for the win!

WIP patch series in gcc-patches...

Let's see how it goes!

https://git.sr.ht/~jemarch