Andrew Haley wrote:
Well, that's where we differ. I don't at all understand how adding
plugins won't make it very much easier. It seems obvious to me that
if there is a reasonably well-defined plugin architecture it will be
vastly easier to export data from gcc's front-ends to a proprietary
compiler. It is entirely beyond my understanding why this isn't also
obvious to you.
Because it is not at all easier. It already is *trivial*.
Before plug-ins: put your gimple-to-myIR converter in passes.c
After plug-ins: dlopen gimple-to-myIR.so
Both represent the same effort. Both require your converter to be kept
up-to-date with GCC's ever shifting ABI/API.
Diego.
