Re: target hooks / plugins

[Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net> wrote:
> Quoting Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>:
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>> Right now, to make a new target hook, you have to add a new field in
>> target.h, define a new default in target-def.h, place the new macro
>> in exactly the right position there of the right initializer macro,
>> describe the new hook in tm.texi, and if you need a new function with
>> a bunch of parameters returning a constant, you have to add this to
>> hooks.c .
>>
>> I would like to be able to do all this by adding a single entry in a
>> new definition file; and the information should also be usable by
>> plugin sources so that they can automatically make wrappers for all
>> function-type hooks.
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> I've attached what I have so far.
> There is an issue that the struct gcc_target member names don't always agree
> with the TARGET_* macro names.
>
> Should I rather change one or the other to make them agree, or add an extra
> parameter in the definition file macros to specify these names
> independently?

I didn't look at the patch yet but I'd simply change one or the other to
make the names consistent.

Richard.

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