From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14143 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2008 19:06:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 14133 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Apr 2008 19:06:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (HELO py-out-1112.google.com) (64.233.166.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:06:10 +0000 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so1901407pyh.18 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.176.6 with SMTP id d6mr11663353qbp.9.1208804768611; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.204.1 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7af24c80804211206x6e0f505fo1748b3af85a6d397@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:36:00 -0000 From: "Kai Henningsen" To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Subject: Re: Some CGEN problems Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7af24c80804191023q318f850do9db5458352163d19@mail.gmail.com> Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q2/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > "Kai Henningsen" writes: > > > Maybe the largest problem (after the rather sparse documentation) is > > that the pmacro system seems to be much weaker than GCC's iterator > > system. [...] Right now, the best way I can think of is to generate > > CGEN input with a Perl script ... [...] > > I agree, that is probably best. > > > > This (and the growing list of stuff that I find that CGEN doesn't > > even try to handle) makes me wonder if it might be easier to not use > > CGEN. [...] > > Only you can judge that. There is little cgen-oriented development > going on now, so any new features you need will need more > encouragement & assistance to make happen than a Marvinoid moan. So don't moan then. Or in other words, rereading my mail I can't see anything even remotely resembling a moan. What it mainly is is wondering what I might have missed - it's hard to believe these particular problems weren't apparent pretty much from the start, and thus it's hard to believe nobody tried to solve them a long time ago. And I'd like to hear how other people solved these kinds of problems - or if they did.