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Re: Inlining on trees
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Inlining on trees
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 04:52:52 -0700
- cc: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Jim Wilson <wilson at cygnus dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911041001540.5953-100000@biriani.cygnus.co.uk>you
write:
> > I would like to see such tree-based inlining completely replace
> > the current integrate.c. I would like to not see us hang on to
> > the old integrator indefinitely, nuking it sooner rather than later.
>
> This reminds me of a similar question. What about GC support? It would
> be nice to get all frontends converted to use GC; we could then remove
> another large chunk of code from the compiler.
> I'd start doing it, but I'm not too familiar with most of the frontends.
> Worse, I've never ever seen a single piece of Chill sourcecode in my
> life, so there's no way I could test any conversion of that frontend.
> [Does anyone actually _use_ Chill, or is it just baggage we're carrying
> around?]
Cygnus has a Chill testsuite, but its legal status is uncertain. I would
like to see the legal status get resolved and the testsuite contributed. But
given the other things going on, the chill testsuite tends to be a low priority
item.
jeff