Re[2]: How can I get access to tree representation

[Alexander <a dot shabanov at geovid dot com>]

Hello Gabriel,

Monday, December 12, 2005, 12:47:17 PM, you wrote:

> Alexander <a.shabanov@geovid.com> writes:

> | I started exploring code base of cc1plus, and now I have little
> | question - how I can get access to tree representation of program (I
> | should do it after gcc/cp/parser.c:cp_parser_translation unit(...), isnt it?)
> | If I wasnt mistaken, RTL began build only if parser says that syntax
> | OK?

> In an ideal world, that is what we would like to have.  But currently,
> things are a bit intertwined -- and historically, it has been worse :-).
> In the current state, the gimplifiers run even if -fsyntax-only.
> Worse, they run even when we know the translation unit contains an error.

> However, you might get a starting point from the codes that call hooks for
> tree dumping.

> -- Gaby

Uhh... sad :-)

When cc1plus make tree dumping can we be sure, that tree correctly
represented program structure, i.e. symbolic information unharmed, and we could make
back-transformation - from tree to source-without-comments level?

-- 
Best regards,
 Alexander                            mailto:a.shabanov@geovid.com