[PATCH 00/11] Rewrite of pass management

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 26/07/13 16:04, David Malcolm wrote:
> The following patch series eliminates the mutable global variables
> representing GCC's passes, allowing for multiple compilation contexts in
> one process, potentially with different combinations of passes
> (e.g. JIT-compilation of JavaScript in one thread, JIT-compilation
> of OpenGL shader programs in another) and with pass instances owning
> additional data, including GC references.
>
> The opt_pass hierarchy becomes a true C++ class hierarchy.
>
> Patch 1 introduces a gcc::pipeline class and moves various non-GTY
> globals relating to pass management into it.  The gcc::context gains its
> first field: a pointer to the gcc::pipeline instance.
>

Why 'pipeline'?  Given that we already use the term for hardware 
scheduling, it seems particularly confusing to use that term here for 
something that seems to be completely unrelated.

R.