From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21316 invoked by alias); 18 May 2010 14:47:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 21290 invoked by uid 22791); 18 May 2010 14:47:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gx0-f217.google.com (HELO mail-gx0-f217.google.com) (209.85.217.217) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 May 2010 14:46:58 +0000 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so4036411gxk.8 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 07:46:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.166.13 with SMTP id o13mr7541828ybe.370.1274194015168; Tue, 18 May 2010 07:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.6.2 with HTTP; Tue, 18 May 2010 07:46:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1274193009.9116.13.camel@glinka> References: <1274193009.9116.13.camel@glinka> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:47:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Design Considerations of GIMPLE Front End From: Steven Bosscher To: basile@starynkevitch.net Cc: Michael Matz , Diego Novillo , Sandeep Soni , GCC LIST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-05/txt/msg00328.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > BTW, is it possible today to have a GCC plugin providing a front-end to > GCC? [last time I looked, I believe the answer is no] This is one of the reasons for my patches to better hide the middle-end details from the front ends. Ciao! Steven