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Re: GCC IMA & general future proposal
- From: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, GCC List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,Caroline Tice <ctice at apple dot com>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>,Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>,Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>,Kenneth Zadeck <zadeck at naturalbridge dot com>, Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:41:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: GCC IMA & general future proposal
- References: <7D87A70E-27F5-11D9-8458-000A95B1F520@geoffk.org> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410271336110.16557@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Geoff Keating wrote:
>
> > I've put a quick draft of my idea of what the future of GCC should look like
> > at
> >
> > <http://www.geoffk.org/gcc/future/gccfuture.html>
>
> It is still useful in such a framework for front ends to be able to handle
> multiple translation units at once as C does, and pass off GENERIC for all
> of them to the next level at once, so that various cross-translation-unit
> consistency checks can be made which depend on language-specific rules.
Also for C++ you don't need to end up with duplicated template bodies
everywhere. I think that KDE use the trick of including multiple C++
files together to reduce this overhead so they might give us some
statistics...
I will look into the draft tonight
Honza
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