Ann: MELT plugin 0.9.1 for GCC 4.6

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>]

Hello All,


It is my pleasure to announce the release of MELT plugin 0.9.1 for GCC 4.6

MELT is a high level domain specific language to ease the development of GCC extensions. 

See http://gcc-melt.org/ for more.

The MELT plugin 0.9.1 for GCC 4.6 (dedicated to the memory of Denis M. Ritchie) is
available, as a gzipped source tar archive, from
http://gcc-melt.org/melt-0.9.1-plugin-for-gcc-4.6.tgz of size 4127673 bytes and md5sum
5d342073af875296d9aad1bd25aa59f9 (october 24th 2011). It is extracted from MELT branch
svn revision 180378. The version number 0.9.1 of the MELT plugin is unrelated to the
version of the GCC compiler (4.6) for which it is supposed to work. Bug reports and
patches are welcome (to the gcc-melt list). 


October 24, 2011: Release of MELT plugin 0.9.1 for gcc-4.6 dedicated to the memory of
Dennis M. Ritchie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

New features:

    variadic MELT functions. 
    =======================
A formal arguments list (i.e. formals for LAMBDA or DEFUN) ending with
:REST is for variadic functions with a variable number and type of
arguments (so :REST in MELT is similar to the ellipsis ... notation in
C prototypes).  At least one first formal argument should be provided
and should be a value.

The (VARIADIC ....) macro is used to fetch actual variadic
arguments. A variadic cursor is internally maintained to parse the
variadic actual arguments. The VARIADIC macro has a sequence of
variadic cases. Each variadic case starts with an ordinary
[non-variadic] formal arguments list, and has a body which is
evaluated for side effects if the current arguments at the cursor
position fits into the formal. The last variadic case can also starts
with an :ELSE.  See also
http://groups.google.com/group/gcc-melt/browse_thread/thread/c124ea6af940c08e

    variadic (DEBUG ....) macro.
    ============================

Debugging messages should go thru the variadic (DEBUG ...) macro which
accepts an arbitrary kind and number of arguments. The DEBUG_MSG macro
is obsolete.

   variadic ADD2OUT function
   =========================

The ADD2OUT variadic function add to an output (either a file value;
or a string buffer values) arbitrary things.


Enjoy. Bug reports and patches are welcome. Please send questions and improvements to
gcc-melt@googlegroups.com & to the main author basile@starynkevitch.net

Regards.
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