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Re: Great example of why "everything is a tree" sucks
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:43:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: Great example of why "everything is a tree" sucks
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 11/13/13 08:59, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> >
> > > Really the best place to start IMHO would be to evict 'tree' from the
> > > front ends. That would really be a step towards making the front ends
> > > independent of the rest of the compiler, and it would simplify changes
> > > towards static 'tree' types.
> >
> > From a C perspective, a useful change that would facilitate moving the IR
> > away from tree would be moving most of fold to operate on GIMPLE instead
> > of on trees (that is, rewriting it as GIMPLE optimizations; I don't think
> > this can be a mechanical refactoring).
> [ ... ]
> Yes. That is most certainly part of "the plan". Andrew, myself and others
> have discussed it extensively. It's a lot of work, but getting the tree
> folder disentangled from the gimple optimizers is definitely on the hit list.
Note that *removing* things from the tree folder (and convert.c, and
shorten_compare, and shorten_binary_op, and any other such fold-like
things) once they've been moved to GIMPLE is a critical part of making it
easier to clean up front-end IR; having them in both places won't help.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com