treelang & C front-end (was: Move -D, -U and -A into the front end)

[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-Mar-2003, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> wrote:
> Fergus Henderson wrote:-
> 
> > I agree.  Hence my patch to make it so
> > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-10/msg00527.html>.
> > But this patch was not accepted by the treelang maintainer;
> > see <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-10/msg00642.html>.
> 
> Hmm, that's a shame.  What kind of changes did he mean he had
> to keep retrofitting?  Keeping up with back-end changes?

Yes.  In particular I think he meant changes to the interface
between the language front-end and the back-end which then
necessitated changes to each front-end.

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