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Re: Proposed plugin API for GCC
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis
<gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Ludovic Courtès
> <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:
>
>> What about sticking to the current “API” instead, and explicitly marking
>> as internal those parts that core developers know are still in flux?
>
> A guarantee of perpetual discussions of the same topic, over and over.
> (meh, GCC-x.y.z just broke my plugins; this is unacceptable, blah blah bah.)
Yeah. Btw, the alternative to a stable plugin API is embedded support of
a scripting language (python, guile, etc.). That's of course just another
supposed-to-be stable "plugin API". Both are sufficient for introspection
and instrumentation tasks (a good test if the API is powerful enough is
to implement mudflap with it).
Richard.