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Does somebody know, are there any plans or works to add ECMA standardized C++/CLI language support to GCC (which would emit IL code)?

This question was partially discussed in SOF (Does Mono .NET support and compile C++ / CLI?), but firstly I'm not sure that this imaginary project should be realized as a part of Mono project instead of core GCC one, and secondly I'm interested in novel information on this subject.

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Yury
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I know of no such work personally (and my opinion of most ECMA standards rhymes with "stubber ramp" after the OOXML debacle), however, the GCC steering committee are probably the best people to ask here on their mailing list. That particular mailing list includes in its description:

All major decisions and changes, like abandoning ports or front ends, should be announced and discussed here.

So I would gather that question about upcoming new front ends would be allowed as well.

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There has been work on a CLI front-end and back-end for GCC: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cli.html - but it looks quite dead (latest news from 2009).

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  • As I understand, that project aims to "classic" C/C++, not C++/CLI, as to following _"The initial focus is on C language (more precisely, C99); C++ is likely to be considered in the future"_ – Yury Sep 11 '12 at 08:10