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Re: Linkage of GPLed GCC to Closed Source via XML or Perl
- From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at acm dot org>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, gcc at gnu dot org, mdupont777 at yahoo dot com
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:13:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: Linkage of GPLed GCC to Closed Source via XML or Perl
- References: <20020304030557.82643F28C5@nile.gnat.com>
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002, Robert Dewar wrote:
> <- Unparsing capabilities (could potentially be used as a
> source-to-source converter).
> >>
>
> Unparsing capabilities are enormously useful, both for debugging the
> compiler and for the programmer understanding generated code (cf the
> -gnatG switch in GNAT, we also provide a -gnatD switch that allows
> debugging at the level of the unparsed source code).
Yup. We're using them mainly to debug the tree simplification
code. Visualizing the simplification process is a lot simpler
that way.
Diego.