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Re: Code Generation
- To: colin at field dot medicine dot adelaide dot edu dot au
- Subject: Re: Code Generation
- From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:15:03 +0100
- CC: raeburn at cygnus dot com, gingold at spec dot saclay dot cea dot fr, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <368DCB87.E630F45E@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au>
> Having said this, I agree that Checker-like functionality is so
> intimately wound up with what the compiler's doing that it may be
> smarter to do it in-compiler. I just wouldn't +dare+ suggest that
> anyone else be asked to do it, and I wouldn't be able or prepared to do
> it myself, where I would be prepared to consider writing the macros
> mentioned.
This might be the problem. *Somebody* has to modify the compiler, for
a seemingly special application. Such a change has to be maintained.
If it gets used, a detailed specification of what it does and how it
works is necessary. To the compiler writer, this is insignificantly
different from putting the desired functionality into the compiler in
the first place, where this option has the advantage of being
semantically cleaner.
Regards,
Martin