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Re: Using of parse tree externally
- To: leei at canada dot ai dot sri dot com (Lee Iverson)
- Subject: Re: Using of parse tree externally
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:39:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell), michael dot dupont at mciworldcom dot de, gdr at codesourcery dot com, espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, unrev-ii at egroups dot com
> Why does there need to be compiler support for this? Well, for C++ at
> least and inhertance-based object-oriented languages in general it can
> be extremely difficult to accumulate good cross-referencing
> information external to the compiler. You just have to duplicate too
> much of the compiler's work.
It should be possible to have some kind of dump format that suffices for
a cross-referencing tool but that lacks sufficient information to
interface external compiler passes to.