On 2012-10-30 02:58, Brad Roberts wrote:
If someone wanted to take on an ambitious task, one of the key problems
with output munging is the parseability of the output (which applies to
the compiler, linker, etc.. all the compiler chain tools). Few (none?) of
them output text that's designed for parsability (though some make it
relatively easy). It would be interesting to design a structured format
and write scripts to sit between the various components to handle adapting
the output.
Restated via an example:
today:
compiler invokes tools and just passes on output
ideal (_an_ ideal, don't nitpick):
compiler invokes tool which returns structured output and uses that
intermediate that's likely easier to achieve:
compiler invokes script that invokes tool (passing args) and fixes
output to match structured output
Even better, in my opinion: Both the linker and compiler is built as a
library. The compiler just calls a function from the linker library,
like any other function, to do the linking. The linker uses the
appropriate exception handling mechanism as any other function would. No
need for tools calling each other and parsing output data.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
