From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29757 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2009 13:28:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 29749 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jun 2009 13:28:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.33.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:28:13 +0000 Received: from wpaz9.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz9.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.73]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id n58DS8HW024408 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:28:09 +0100 Received: from fxm20 (fxm20.prod.google.com [10.184.13.20]) by wpaz9.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id n58DRfEb022679 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 06:28:06 -0700 Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so3089174fxm.12 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:28:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.126.145 with SMTP id c17mr1481677fas.16.1244467686265; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:28:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <571f6b510906080341l37bc582fq1f7015743fa74c0@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A290438020000D90002F6E4@iris.jde.aca.mmu.ac.uk> <571f6b510906050343o16e5a179s97838d1baafb938e@mail.gmail.com> <8D7D4DC8-7934-41FC-A2FC-FB379E5E1DC4@apple.com> <20090605210546.GB32218@synopsys.com> <38a0d8450906071810p6254a0fcg5b3b1573cb154f1c@mail.gmail.com> <571f6b510906080341l37bc582fq1f7015743fa74c0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: <38a0d8450906080628n9533afcjae087ac9baada124@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: LLVM as a gcc plugin? From: Rafael Espindola To: Steven Bosscher Cc: Joe Buck , Chris Lattner , Andrew Nisbet , "grigori.fursin@inria.fr" , "baldrick@free.fr" , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" , "ubizjak@gmail.com" , "zbigniew.chamski@gmail.com" , "ZAKS@il.ibm.com" , "Albert.Cohen@inria.fr" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00154.txt.bz2 > I'd turn that around: There is already a version of LLVM that uses > GCC. =C2=A0I don't see any way in which the FSF GCC benefits from this. A= nd > since this list concerns the FSF GCC... That is not a valid turn around. We know that the existing LLVM can handle this. We are not sure if the existing plugin infrastructure can. That also goes to the more general question "should plugin development be discussed on this list?". One of the main uses of plugins will probably be adding features that are not of interest to GCC in general. > Ciao! > Steven > Cheers, --=20 Rafael Avila de Espindola Google | Gordon House | Barrow Street | Dublin 4 | Ireland Registered in Dublin, Ireland | Registration Number: 368047