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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: charfi asma <charfiasma@yahoo.fr>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [GCC front end] add new TREE CODE
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcr4o86bj9g.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64888.39441.qm@web28511.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (charfi asma's	message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:40 +0000 (GMT)")

charfi asma <charfiasma@yahoo.fr> writes:

> I am developping my own gcc front end. My source language contains concepts that 
> are not represented directly in C code.
> to compile those elements, I think that I should add a new tree codes to my 
> front end as C++ does for templates...
> I think that I should also implement how to translate this new tree code in 
> Gimple.
> my question is : should I also care about how to translate those tree code al 
> over the compiler chain: gimple --> ssa --> unssa --> rtl --> ass ...
> did you suggest to follow an example of an existing front end that adds some 
> tree code cause the C++ one seems to be mature and complete.

First let me say that if your language is very different from C you
probably shouldn't be using trees at all.

But if your language is mostly like C then using trees is reasonable.
Even the C frontend itself has language-specific tree codes; see
c-family/c-common.def.  Or look at Objective C, at objc/objc-tree.def.

Ian

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-14 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-14 17:44 charfi asma
2011-02-14 17:48 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2011-02-14 23:59 ` Andi Hellmund
2011-02-21 11:26   ` Re : " charfi asma
2011-02-21 14:27     ` Andi Hellmund

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