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134k Lines Of Code Posted As Latest Effort For COBOL Support Within GCC
While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler
There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. James Lowden who has been leading the push to get the COBOL support upstreamed into GCC posted the new 15 patches totaling 134,033 lines of code. We're getting late in the GCC 15 cycle for focusing on regression fixes, but given that the new COBOL front-end doesn't risk existing language support, we'll see if the GCC developers decide to pull in COBOL support for this year's GNU Compiler Collection release.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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