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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
> Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
>
> | It's interestinng to note that in the Ada world, there is an ISO
> | standard for plugins, which is compiler/vendor neutral (at least
> | in theory, in practice there are some implementation dependencies).
> | That's the ASIS interface (Ada Semantic Interface Specification).
>
> So, is it that plugins are good for Ada (and I presume the GNU Ada
> front end) but not for GCC?
Robert is using the word "plugin" differently. ASIS is an interface
and a library. There are no plugins in the sense discussed here. He
means it in a very generic sense, in the sense that we already have it
for GCC.