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Re: gcc extensibility
On 03/30/2012 10:37 AM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Ludovic Courtès
> <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> skribis:
>>
>>> I do not think people working on plugins have come up with a
>>> specification and an API they agree on.
>>
>> I think it’s wrong to consider plug-ins as second-class citizens.
>>
>> The plug-in mechanism is just a technical means to allow people to
>> extend the compiler without having to have their code checked in the
>> main tree.
>
> No, that means would be using the old tool named 'patch' before building
> GCC.
Or even the new tool named 'git'.
Bernd