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Re: building gcc
Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net> writes:
> Hopefully I'll be able to debug gcc nicely after this is built. Two
> more questions that could save me a lot of time. Do you know where the
> abstract syntax tree is stored in GCC after a file is parsed?
I'm not sure what kind of answer you are looking for. One place to
look is in the cgraph code.
> Does GCC
> still create an AST for C/C++, or does it go directly to GIMPLE?
gcc generates an AST, of sorts, for C++. For C it goes directly to
GIMPLE (really GENERIC, but they are pretty similar).
Ian