On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Ben Elliston <b...@au1.ibm.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 01:59 -0500, Sean Callanan wrote: > >> Our plugins do not break when switching compiler binaries. In fact, I >> have had plug-in binaries that perform very simple tasks work fine >> when switching (minor!) compiler releases. > > Thinking about this made me realise that the plugin framework will > require special consideration for utilities like ccache and distcc. > ccache checksums (or at least stats) the cc1 binary to decide whether a > cached object file is valid. If you change a plugin, the cc1 binary > won't change, but the generated code probably will.
Why not use the output of cc1 --version, and then have the loaded plugins listed there. (This also means bug reports should have the plugins listed assuming the user uses the same command line with --version tacked on)
