[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:19:00PM +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> 
> >>>> How does a C front-end affect the Pascal front-end?
> >>> If it doesn't affect it, it has no use or what would you do with macros
> >>> in headers? If they aren't supported in the pascal front end, it makes
> >>> no sense to read them with a C frontend.
> >> [ ] You understand what's a preprocessor
> > 
> > So you are suggesting a preprocessor that reads C and outputs Pascal? :-)
> 
> No, this were what ToPas does. Instead I suggest to skip the 
> intermediate Pascal code, and to compile the given source code immediately.

It would mean integrating a full blown substitution based preprocessor.

But this is a sidetrack of the real problem: I don't see a real benefit in
integrating a C compiler. 

The main benefits of that one would only get when the C compiler becomes
terribly advanced, something that I don't see happening anytime soon, and
the position of 3rd party (non-system) C compilers on Unix is not terribly
useful either.