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Re: Ada, treelang needs to be converted to --enable-mapped-location
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 04 12:42:44 EDT
- Subject: Re: Ada, treelang needs to be converted to --enable-mapped-location
line-map.[ch] should not be considered part of GCC in this context.
The proper analogy is to code in libiberty, which is shared among many
projects. There is no reason the Ada front end cannot make use of it
when linked to some other back-end (modulo source packaging issues).
But it doesn't use libiberty either! Although Ada supports
interfacing with other languages relatively easily, it isn't free and
doing that does indeed complicate packaging issues for the non-GCC
backends (which are written purely in Ada). The point is that there's
no reason to have to go outside the front-end until the transition
point from Slocs to whatever the middle-end uses and Sloc_to_locus
seems to me to be the right place to do that.