[JoshTriplett]

> FWIW the GCC frontend development seems to have started up again. I'm hopeful!

I'm curious: any particular goals or results you hope to see out of the GCC frontend? Do they have any plans to share front-end code with rustc, such as the parser?

[Manishearth]

> any particular goals or results you hope to see out of the GCC frontend

- Support for weird architectures

- Potential for diverse double compiling

- Better crystallization of the language spec.

[steveklabnik]

One thing I'm hoping is that it brings support for some more obscure arches.

[JoshTriplett]

The ones that GCC supports and LLVM doesn't?

[steveklabnik]

Yup. There's a lot, in my understanding.