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Re: GCC Plug-in Framework ready to port
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:24, Richard Guenther
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1- Agree on a common API and document it in
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_PluginAPI
>
> Note that even for this taks being able to compare what the existing frameworks
> implement (with code) would help a lot. After all, source code tells more
> than 1000 "design" words ;)
Sure, but we will be retrofitting existing implementations into a
unified API, and the various groups have gathered quite a bit of
experience already, so I expect the API to be fairly pragmatic.
I also don't think this will be a very complicated API.
Diego.