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Re: Plugin API Comments (was Re: GCC Plug-in Framework ready to port)
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 01:59 -0500, Sean Callanan wrote:
>
>> Our plugins do not break when switching compiler binaries. In fact, I
>> have had plug-in binaries that perform very simple tasks work fine
>> when switching (minor!) compiler releases.
>
> Thinking about this made me realise that the plugin framework will
> require special consideration for utilities like ccache and distcc.
> ccache checksums (or at least stats) the cc1 binary to decide whether a
> cached object file is valid. If you change a plugin, the cc1 binary
> won't change, but the generated code probably will.
Why not use the output of cc1 --version, and then have the loaded
plugins listed there.
(This also means bug reports should have the plugins listed assuming
the user uses the same command line with --version tacked on)