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From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, Sandeep Soni <soni.sandeepb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Design Considerations of GIMPLE Front End
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimwVOdoTbzpqwHRcyq8EgyssQCsk-nmAHgvLeoH@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilQWdLDrQypzwqbzTKsUYKyPKMvHMKVClFvZJWH@mail.gmail.com>

[ apologies for the duplicate message.  My previous reply was bounced
by the ML. ]

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:52, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/18/2010 04:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> > On 18/05/2010 15:17, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>> >
>> >> IMHO, ideally we would have a syntax that is human readable and human
>> >> writable. S-expressions are not as easy to read for me as something
>> >> that resembles C.
>> >
>> >   I'd like it that way too, but I acknowledge that it would be more work and
>> > it's not me who'd have to do that extra work...
>>
>> Well, it can always be changed later, but there's a lot to be said for
>> not spending time now writing a parser, and getting on with the project.
>> It's a matter of taste anyway.
>
Yup.  This shade of blue can be changed later.  Sandi, let's start
with the S-expression syntax for everything.  Richard is correct in
pointing out that even gimple expressions have metadata associated
with them that will need to be represented.


Diego.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-18 15:04 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
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 [this message]
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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