RE: gcc 4.0 front-end infrastructure for C dialects - plans?

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Gary Funck wrote:

> There is general interest in doing this.  However, I don't think that
> in its present state that the mods. would be found acceptable for
> inclusion in the gcc development tree.  The required changes are

Given that you describe the dialect as experimental, I'd recommend looking 
to put it on its own development branch rather than mainline, unless and 
until it seems mature, has widespread adoption and all the mainline merge 
criteria (e.g. testcases in the testsuite for every line of the code and 
specification) are met.  This does however need CVS write access.  Every 
feature on mainline has a cost associated with its interactions with every 
other feature - at least quadratic in the number of features, and 
sometimes exponential.

You may find it useful to participate in the design of how GENERIC and 
GIMPLE are extended to cover OpenMP - also being implemented on a 
development branch, with no guarantee of a future merge to mainline - so 
that such extensions are such as to facilitate rather than obstruct your 
changes.

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