Linkage of GPLed GCC to Closed Source via XML or Perl

[Diego Novillo]

On Mon, 04 Mar 2002, Bryce McKinlay wrote:

> 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...
> 
If you're looking for more interesting ways of examining the
ASTs, the ast-optimizer-branch is starting to show a few:

- Unparsing capabilities (could potentially be used as a
  source-to-source converter).

- Flowgraphs.

- Call graphs.

- Metrics (control flow complexity and logical complexity).


Diego.