Re: Simplifying Gimple Generation

[Lawrence Crowl <crowl@googlers.com>]

On 11/14/12, Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:13:12PM -0800, Lawrence Crowl wrote:
>> Diego and I seek your comments on the following (loose) proposal.
>>
>>
>> Generating gimple and tree expressions require lots of detail,
>> which is hard to remember and easy to get wrong.  There is some
>> amount of boilerplate code that can, in most cases, be reduced and
>> managed automatically.
>>
>> We will add a set of helper classes to be used as local variables
>> to manage the details of handling the existing types.  That is,
>> a layer over 'gimple_build_*'. We intend to provide helpers for
>> those facilities that are both commonly used and have room for
>> significant simplification.
>
> I do agree (in principle) on this and the previous (debugging-like)
> proposal, but:
>
>   do you target the 4.8 release? (I believe not, since its stage 1 is
>   ending)

Not 4.8.

>   do you intend to remove the current way of doing?

Definitely not.  Our intent is to provide an easier tool that
accomplishes the common tasks.  We expect that tricky stuff will
use the existing interfaces.

-- 
Lawrence Crowl