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Re: treelang fix for rs6000 / treelang not proper front end
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>
- Cc: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>, Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:10:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: treelang fix for rs6000 / treelang not proper front end
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Tim Josling wrote:
> Personally I like to build my own language specific parse tree and then
> rtl-ize it in a separate module. I did this with my cobol compiler.
Is that really much different than building a language-specific parse tree
then calling some module to genericize it?
My understanding from the tree-ssa presentations is that the important RTL
optimizers won't be maintained long-term, so I wouldn't want to count on
them in a new frontend.
Jeff