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Read the middle-end array expression paper by Richard Guenther !
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: gfortran <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:51:34 +0200
- Subject: Read the middle-end array expression paper by Richard Guenther !
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
Richard has held a very interesting talk at the GCC Summit this year
about moving all array expression handling into the middle end.
This has two, immediately obvious, consequences:
1. It enables other front ends than the Fortran one to translate array
syntax easily (the Ada people were *very* interested in this).
2. It would make the Fortran front end much simpler.
Richard is currently waiting for the GIMPLE tuples to be implemented to
finish his middle end updates to deal with "array (section) registers".
His paper is at: http://www.suse.de/~rguenther/guenther.pdf
Hope this is useful,
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