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From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com>
To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: Sandeep Soni <soni.sandeepb@gmail.com>, GCC LIST <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Design Considerations of GIMPLE Front End
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikfsHaqGc8XYc4_6fzR7yvIPJGX4hHRPB4MtwL5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1005181552080.1097@wotan.suse.de>

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:59, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:

> I don't see how that is much easier to parse compared to
>  i_1 = k_1 + m_1
>  j_1 = func (arg1, arg2)

Well, it would make the parser almost trivial to implement.  But you
have a point, the only structurally complex objects we need to parse
are type declarations.  Everything else should have very uniform
syntax.

> The nice thing with tuples is that there's always only one operator, and
> hence no ambiguity in precedence that needs to be resolved or explicitely
> encoded via a list structure.

That's true.

> Or is the format also intended to be able to represent GENERIC, i.e.
> deeply nested structures?

No, just gimple.


Diego.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-18 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17 20:21 Sandeep Soni
2010-05-17 21:04 ` Andrew Haley
2010-05-18  3:25   ` Sandeep Soni
2010-05-18  8:39     ` Andrew Haley
2010-05-18 13:18 ` Diego Novillo
2010-05-18 14:00   ` Michael Matz
2010-05-18 14:09     ` Diego Novillo [this message]
2010-05-18 14:18       ` Steven Bosscher
2010-05-18 14:46         ` Dave Korn
2010-05-18 14:52           ` Andrew Haley
     [not found]             ` <AANLkTilQWdLDrQypzwqbzTKsUYKyPKMvHMKVClFvZJWH@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-18 15:04               ` Diego Novillo
2010-05-18 15:24                 ` Sandeep Soni
2010-05-18 14:30     ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-18 14:32       ` Richard Guenther
2010-05-18 14:47       ` Steven Bosscher
2010-06-04  8:24 ` Sebastian Pop

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