Re: plugin-provided pragmas & Fortran or Ada?

[Duncan Sands <baldrick at free dot fr>]

Hi Basile,

> > > Assuming a plugin (e.g. MELT) add a new pragma using PLUGIN_PRAGMAS, is
> > > this pragma usable from Ada or Fortran code?
> > >
> > > I am not very familiar with Ada or Fortran. I believe Ada has some
> > > syntax for pragmas -but do Ada pragma have the same API inside GCC
> > > plugins as C or C++ pragmas?- and I am not sure about Fortran. Many
> > > Fortran dialects or implementations parse specially some kind of
> > > comments -but I don't know if these are giving pragma events to plugins.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this won't work for Ada without modifying the Ada
> > front-end.
>
> Are there any plugin hooks for Ada pragmas? Perhaps the Ada team might
> consider adding some, if it is simple enough. Specific pragmas have
> definitely their places in plugins.

I'm pretty sure there are no such plugin hooks right now.

Ciao,

Duncan.