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Re: Can GMP be replaced by trees?
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: Tobias Schlüter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>,GCC Fortran mailing list <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 14:02:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: Can GMP be replaced by trees?
- Organization: SUSE Labs
- References: <40A9F429.9010503@physik.uni-muenchen.de>
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 13:31, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
> How difficult would it be to change gfortran to use gcc's mechanisms
> instead?
I have tried it once. It is a _huge_ job because we have all those
simplify functions around. And the GCC builtin folders cannot easily
be used or you have to build temporary 'tree' objects for every
fold you want to do.
(This is why at one point I wanted to make gfortran trees everywhere...)
Gr.
Steven