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Re: Using of parse tree externally
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Subject: Re: Using of parse tree externally
- From: Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>
- Date: 13 Oct 2000 01:13:41 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20001012223533.384F334D86@nile.gnat.com>
dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
>
> Well it is not so much fear, as a hope that the pressure will cause
> people to GPL such specialized back-ends. I know of two such cases.
> TLD put the backend of their compiler under the GPL to go together with
> the GNAT front end, and SGI put their advanced optimizing backend under
> the GPL to go with the g++ and gnu C frontends.
The SGI backend will also nicely give you something very near a parse tree
in a file (in highlevel whirl, not trees) from gcc/g++ input when you ask
for it, making a lot of this discussion moot. It has already happened.
Who or what is TLD ?
-Andi