On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:13:12PM -0800, Lawrence Crowl wrote: > Diego and I seek your comments on the following (loose) proposal. > > > Generating gimple and tree expressions require lots of detail, > which is hard to remember and easy to get wrong. There is some > amount of boilerplate code that can, in most cases, be reduced and > managed automatically. > > We will add a set of helper classes to be used as local variables > to manage the details of handling the existing types. That is, > a layer over 'gimple_build_*'. We intend to provide helpers for > those facilities that are both commonly used and have room for > significant simplification.
I do agree (in principle) on this and the previous (debugging-like) proposal, but: do you target the 4.8 release? (I believe not, since its stage 1 is ending) do you intend to remove the current way of doing? Cheers. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***
