Re: plugin hooks

[Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Basile STARYNKEVITCH
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I feel that the current plugin hooks, that is the set of plugin events
> enumerated in the enum plugin_event of gcc/gcc-plugin.h and the associated
> API in gcc/plugin.h (e.g. register_attribute) is perhaps still incomplete.
>
> My feeling is that adding plugin events (at least those for which
> invoke_plugin_callbacks is not called a lot of times) is a negligible
> addition that fits well in the current stage 3 of the trunk.
> What do you think about that?
>
> The point is that some plugins will need a lot more hooks, and that waiting
> for 4.6 or 5.0 (i.e. the next release after 4.5 from current trunk) will
> delay them possibly for at least a year. And adding these additional hooks
> seems easy and reasonable now. And perhaps adding new functions (I am
> thinking of register_plugin_builtin) to facilitate plugin extensions.
>
> I started adding a new wiki page http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugin%20hooks to
> list the possible addition that should go into trunk
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Should I try to propose some patches to gcc-patches@ about that, or is it
> impossible in the current stage3 of the trunk?

Adding hooks just because you think they might be useful
isn't the way to go.

Richard.