From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17041 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2001 03:40:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 16993 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2001 03:40:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out1.apple.com) (17.254.0.52) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 03:40:06 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAS3e6u18311 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:39:47 -0800 Received: from gourd (gourd.apple.com [17.202.44.182]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAS3e1G25072; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:40:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:15:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v475) Cc: Mark Mitchell , Joe Buck , "Joseph S. Myers" , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" To: Aldy Hernandez From: Ziemowit Laski In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <9A42D202-E3B1-11D5-AE62-0030658361CA@apple.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.475) X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00957.txt.bz2 On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 06:23 , Aldy Hernandez wrote: > I've actually thought about implementing generic front end extension > support to gcc for this kind of nonsense. Sort of like a preprocessor > that runs after the actual C preprocessor-- massages the output in any > way it sees fit, and feeds its output to the lexical analyzer. > > This way if someone wants to implement some brain dead front end > extension widely used somewhere else, it could be a plugin-- and we > could offer a whole slew of plugins in the future (altivec plugins, > msoft inline assembly plugin, etc etc). > > That sounds like a good project :) Well, it definitely sounds interesting! Tell me more. :) :) -------------------------------------------------------------- Ziemowit Laski Apple Computer, Inc. zlaski@apple.com 2 Infinite Loop, MS 302-4SN +1.408.974.6229 Fax .1344 Cupertino, CA 95014-2085 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ziemowit Laski To: Aldy Hernandez Cc: Mark Mitchell , Joe Buck , "Joseph S. Myers" , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Target-specific Front-Ends? (Was: front end changes for Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: <9A42D202-E3B1-11D5-AE62-0030658361CA@apple.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01458.html Message-ID: <20011127194000.MWPrO-P5RbP5LKyoGX1pz7jDfJhYmhghzaaaBeb_VAo@z> On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 06:23 , Aldy Hernandez wrote: > I've actually thought about implementing generic front end extension > support to gcc for this kind of nonsense. Sort of like a preprocessor > that runs after the actual C preprocessor-- massages the output in any > way it sees fit, and feeds its output to the lexical analyzer. > > This way if someone wants to implement some brain dead front end > extension widely used somewhere else, it could be a plugin-- and we > could offer a whole slew of plugins in the future (altivec plugins, > msoft inline assembly plugin, etc etc). > > That sounds like a good project :) Well, it definitely sounds interesting! Tell me more. :) :) -------------------------------------------------------------- Ziemowit Laski Apple Computer, Inc. zlaski@apple.com 2 Infinite Loop, MS 302-4SN +1.408.974.6229 Fax .1344 Cupertino, CA 95014-2085