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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Convert gimple to a C++ class hierarchy


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 08:58:43AM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > And the manual GTY markers are so not maintainable in the long run,
> > gengtype or something else really needs to be taught to create them
> > automatically.
> 
> I thought the principle that was acquired was that gengtype shouldn't
> be improved to support more than what it does nowâ.

If it means that we'll need to write and maintain tons of hand written code
that could otherwise be generated and maintained by a tool for us, that
principle doesn't look very good.

	Jakub


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