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Re: treelang fix for rs6000 / treelang not proper front end
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:21:46AM +1000, Tim Josling wrote:
> > treelang (or an "example front end" in general) should explain the
> > front-end interface, period. It is not supposed to be a
> > HOWTO-write-a-GCC-front-end, I think. (That's more something for an
> > O'Reilly book we could write ;-)
> >
> > Gr.
> > Steven
>
> I'm not sure the size of audience is there for a book. But I would buy a
> copy for sure.
>
> Tim Josling
>
Maybe some of those that have bought "Lex and Yacc", and those that
have a language that targets the C and that want to port it to GCC.
Maybe the book could be extended to cover the GIMPLE and tree-ssa
framework in which case it will interest much more people that want
for example write verification tools, optimizers, ...
That could be an interesting project Steven, and I would like to help.