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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: "Kai Henningsen" <kai.extern@googlemail.com>
Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Some CGEN problems
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0miqyb435a.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7af24c80804191023q318f850do9db5458352163d19@mail.gmail.com> (Kai Henningsen's message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:23:48 +0200")

"Kai Henningsen" <kai.extern@googlemail.com> 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.

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  8:12 Kai Henningsen
2008-04-21 19:06 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2008-04-21 19:36   ` Kai Henningsen
2008-04-22 17:18     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-04-26 18:37     ` Jim Blandy
2008-06-01 14:14       ` Kai Henningsen

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