On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:48:31 PST, azra yasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> i am working on a GUI project of GCC for linux , i want to know some statistics
>about the need to develop the GUI for linux command line compiler. can any one
>provide me such statistics.
GCC is almost always used in a Makefile/configure/autoconf type environment,
and as such a GUI interface wouldn't get you much. What would it do, allow
you to set flags via buttons? ("-fvomit-frame-pointer on/off")?
What *would* be interesting would be a more integrated environment such as
IBM's VisualAge compiler or the SGI compiler tools, to do things like
(for example) if you edit a function and add a parameter to it, that it
would then show you all the places that function was called and prompt you
to fix the calls.
But that's a job for emacs/etags, not the compiler itself....
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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