Re: HTML of -fdump-tree-XXXX proposal.

[Brooks Moses <brooks dot moses at codesourcery dot com>]

J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> In the attachment there is a quick&dirty alpha patch that i don't known
> why the gcc compiler says "gcc: unrecognized option '-html'". ???
> I don't known where to modify the gcc code to add an option.
>
> The XHTML format to fputs is a little bad.
>
> There are examples to test too.
>
> The idea is to filter the output stream.

I think it makes a lot more sense to implement this as a standalone 
filter for the output stream, which takes the files that contain the 
current dump-tree output and converts it to HTML.  You don't lose any 
functionality by doing that, and there's no compelling reason for adding 
the extra complexity to the tree-dumpers themselves if we don't need to.

Certainly it can be a useful idea to have more ways of viewing the dump 
files than just reading the plaintext in a text editor, but it seems 
more sensible to me to consider the plaintext-to-HTML conversion as an 
aspect of a standalone "viewer" system, rather than as an aspect of the 
compiler.

- Brooks