* MCS: The Ximian C# compiler
- MCS is currently able to compile itself and many more C#
- programs (there is a test suite included that you can use).
+ The Mono C# compiler is considered feature complete at this
+ point and relatively mature. MCS is able to compile itself
+ and many more C# programs (there is a test suite included that
+ you can use). It is routinely used to compile Mono, roughly
+ half a million lines of C# code.
- We are in feature completion mode right now. There are still
- a couple of areas that are not covered by the Mono compiler, but
- they are very very few at this point.
+* Pending tasks
- MCS was able to parse itself on April 2001, MCS compiled itself
- for the first time on December 28 2001. MCS became self hosting
- on January 3rd, 2001.
+ There are a few known bugs in the Mono C# compiler, but
+ they are very very few at this point,
+ you can also browse the MCS <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FMCS&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query">bugs</a> from Bugzilla.
A test suite is maintained to track the progress of
the compiler and various programs are routinely compiled and
ran.
+** Slides
+
+ Slides for the Mono C# Compiler presentation at .NET ONE are
+ available <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">here</a>
+ in StarOffice format.
+
** Obtaining MCS
The Mono C# compiler is part of the `mcs' module in the Mono CVS
** Running MCS
- MCS is written in C# and uses heavily the .NET APIs. At this point
- MCS only runs on Windows with the .NET Framework SDK installed. Work
- is progressing rapidly in our JIT engine and our class libraries to
- allow MCS to be ran in non-Windows systems.
+ MCS is written in C# and uses heavily the .NET APIs. MCS runs
+ on Linux with the Mono runtime and on Windows with both the
+ .NET runtime and the Mono runtime.
** Reporting Bugs in MCS
able to use this generic CIL optimizer in their projects
reducing their time to develop a production compiler.
-<a name="tasks">
-** Current pending tasks
-
- Simple tasks:
-
- <ul>
- * Redo the way we deal with built-in operators.
- </ul>
-
- Larger tasks:
- <ul>
-
- * Jay does not work correctly with `error'
- productions, making parser errors hard to point. It
- would be best to port the Bison-To-Java compiler to
- become Bison-to-C# compiler.
-
- Nick Drochak has started a project on SourceForge for this.
- You can find the project at: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jb2csharp/">
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/jb2csharp/</a>
+** History
- * Semantic Analysis: Return path coverage and
- initialization before use coverage are two great
- features of C# that help reduce the number of bugs
- in applications. It is one interesting hack.
+ MCS was able to parse itself on April 2001, MCS compiled itself
+ for the first time on December 28 2001. MCS became self hosting
+ on January 3rd, 2002.
- </ul>
+ The Mono Runtime and the Mono execution engine were able to make
+ our compiler self hosting on March 12, 2002.
** Questions and Answers
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