Using of parse tree externally

[Andi Kleen]

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