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Re: LLVM/GCC Integration Proposal

From: Chris Lattner <sabre at nondot dot org>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:49:07 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: LLVM/GCC Integration Proposal
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511191156250.20101@nondot.org> <200511200140.42970.stevenb@suse.de>

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Steven Bosscher wrote:

On Saturday 19 November 2005 18:56, Chris Lattner wrote:
Only the Ada frontend seems to be in a state to maybe support direct
frontend IR to LLVM translation.
Sure, also maybe Fortran?

I wouldn't count on it...

Can you explain what you mean? The context above was speculating about the possibility of reducing dependency on the 'tree' data structure. My impression was that Fortran used its own private IR (gfc_expr for example) that wasn't based on trees. I thought that it converted to trees as its interface to the rest of GCC, in which case, it is quite possible for it to convert to LLVM directly instead.

I'm not necessarily advocating this, but it seems possible. Of course it's also highly like that I'm confused, as I know very little about the Fortran front-end. :)

-Chris

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