From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28470 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2012 12:01:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 28454 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2012 12:01:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f175.google.com) (209.85.214.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:00:49 +0000 Received: by obbwc20 with SMTP id wc20so939095obb.20 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:00:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.51.73 with SMTP id i9mr2473097obo.17.1333108849080; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.92.168 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:00:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ty16mnh4.fsf@inria.fr> References: <1333054687.31165.65.camel@surprise> <87limiqzs6.fsf@inria.fr> <87ty16mnh4.fsf@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Proposed plugin API for GCC From: Gabriel Dos Reis To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Cc: Richard Guenther , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2012-03/txt/msg00529.txt.bz2 On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Ludovic Court=E8s wrote: > I find it important to help such unanticipated uses of GCC spread. It is hard to design for things you do not know. How about starting with things you do know? A possible path to progress on this issue, no? -- Gaby