Re: Simplifying Gimple Generation

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:13:12PM -0800, Lawrence Crowl wrote:
> Diego and I seek your comments on the following (loose) proposal.
> 
> 
> Generating gimple and tree expressions require lots of detail,
> which is hard to remember and easy to get wrong.  There is some
> amount of boilerplate code that can, in most cases, be reduced and
> managed automatically.
> 
> We will add a set of helper classes to be used as local variables
> to manage the details of handling the existing types.  That is,
> a layer over 'gimple_build_*'. We intend to provide helpers for
> those facilities that are both commonly used and have room for
> significant simplification.

I do agree (in principle) on this and the previous (debugging-like) proposal, but:

  do you target the 4.8 release? (I believe not, since its stage 1 is ending)

  do you intend to remove the current way of doing?

Cheers.
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