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Re: GCC plugin - was: Official Inclusion of GCC Extension Modules (Or similar)
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:40 +1000, Brendon Costa wrote:
> Thank you for the information. It sounds like this is almost what I am
> looking for. I require hooks into the C GENERIC transformation stage
> (before GENERIC is transformed into GIMPLE). The paper mentioned that
> this is not yet done but may be added as a future improvement.
Yes, there is no reason why the plugins could not be extended to other
aspects of the compiler (eg. RTL passes, pass manager, etc).
> I might look a bit more into this branch. It looks great. Does anyone
> know if this is the best place to direct any questions or thoughts if
> i have any or should i email Sean directly?
If you think it would be of interest to the rest of the list, I see no
reason (given the level of interest in the topic at the GCC Summit) that
you couldn't use this list. If it gets too off-topic, someone will let
you know. :-)
Cheers, Ben