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From: ludovic.courtes@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
Cc: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,  gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed plugin API for GCC
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878viijism.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAiZkiCHRqkbnGa_Cd9rBVUgtPmKbLfbqsmTC4exkRnDHutZsw@mail.gmail.com>	(Gabriel Dos Reis's message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:00:49 -0500")

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> skribis:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Ludovic Courtès
> <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:
>
>> I find it important to help such unanticipated uses of GCC spread.
>
> It is hard to design for things you do not know.

Indeed, that’s the whole point.  Offer a ten-function stable API and
watch “plug-in people”, as you put it, do compiler work on top of LLVM.
As simple as this.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-30 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-29 20:59 David Malcolm
2012-03-30  0:06 ` Miles Bader
2012-03-30 22:55   ` David Malcolm
2012-03-30  4:18 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-03-30  8:47   ` Romain Geissler
2012-03-30 13:48     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-03-30 18:17       ` Romain Geissler
2012-03-30  8:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-03-30  8:32   ` Richard Guenther
2012-03-30  9:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-03-30 12:01       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2012-03-30 13:55         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-03-30  9:33   ` Basile Starynkevitch
2012-03-30 11:59     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2012-03-30 11:55   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2012-03-30 11:59     ` Richard Guenther
2012-03-30 12:04       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2012-03-30 14:31   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-03-30 14:49     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-03-30 15:13       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2012-03-30 12:14 ` Richard Guenther
2012-03-30 13:09   ` Basile Starynkevitch
2012-03-31  0:46     ` David Malcolm
2012-03-31  1:44       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2012-04-02 15:16         ` Michael Matz
2012-03-31  9:10       ` Romain Geissler
2012-03-30 23:17   ` David Malcolm

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