From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9850 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2008 15:53:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 9841 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Apr 2008 15:53:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:52:44 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3LFqhqI016130; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:43 -0400 Received: from pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (pobox-3.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.67]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3LFqgCj008276; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:42 -0400 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.9]) by pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3LFqIjO028173; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:42 -0400 Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (ton.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.15]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B70768001FF; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3LFpjeA016943; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:51:45 -0400 Received: (from fche@localhost) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m3LFpjwg016942; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:51:45 -0400 To: "Kai Henningsen" Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Some CGEN problems References: <7af24c80804191023q318f850do9db5458352163d19@mail.gmail.com> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:06:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <7af24c80804191023q318f850do9db5458352163d19@mail.gmail.com> (Kai Henningsen's message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:23:48 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00007.txt.bz2 "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. - FChE