Linkage of GPLed GCC to Closed Source via XML or Perl

[Bryce McKinlay]

James Michael DuPont wrote:

>Besides, Noone else is really using it as far as I
>know, and the only project that I have compiled are
>the c,c++ and java compilers. 
>
>I have a postgres database of 2gb with all the asts
>from the stage2 bootstrap on my computer and am
>writing cool queries to figure out how the tree nodes
>are used.
>

Technical question: does your patched compiler dump out any AST info 
that isn't already dumped by -fdump-trees/tree-dump.c? ie is there more 
info there, or is the intent just to generate XML output so that it is 
more parseable by other tools?

I always thought it would be a cool debugging tool to have some sort of 
gui for introspection of the AST. "p debug_tree(t)" in GDB does get 
boring after a while...

regards

Bryce.