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Re: [tree-ssa] Use of build_binary_op
On 26 Sep 2002 12:23:47 +0200, Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Op do 26-09-2002, om 11:28 schreef Jason Merrill:
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:40:51 +0200, Pop Sébastian <pop@gauvain.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
>> > I think that we have to define an interface on both lowered and
>> > non lowered GIMPLE.
>>
>> Why would they need to be different?
>
> Because it allows you to share the lowering pass among the front ends.
Why would having separate interfaces change that? The bnw-simple lowering
pass is already language-independent.
> The front ends would only need to worry about language specific trees
> and their semantics.
Right, that's the idea.
Jason