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Re: [plugin] Directory for plugins distributed with gcc
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Diego Novillo wrote:
> In general I think spinning off modules/passes that are not used very
> frequently (e.g. the tree browser) is a good idea since it reduces the
> size of our code base.
Before moving something out to a plugin (if we think that is technically
appropriate for the particular code in question) we should have a way to
build code, set up to be built as a plugin, into the compiler so that the
-fplugin options find the built-in code, in a way that does not depend on
plugins otherwise being supported on the host system; maybe somewhere in
the source tree to put sources for plugins that get built into the
compiler, or a configure option to point to such sources.
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Joseph S. Myers
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