Re: List of simplifications we should perform

[Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> It would be nice if there were a target-independent .md file where we
> could code these simplifications as patterns, rather than having to
> code them in C.  We could have the gen* functions merge the target.md
> and common.md up front, and everything would "just work".

Reminds me of SUIF's sharlit

http://suif.stanford.edu/suif/suif1/docs/man_sharlit.1.html

It's a language to describe data-flow analyzers. It's similar
to the idea of having parser generators, only with optimizers.
Similar other tools exist, maybe they could be incorporated in
the long term.

Diego.