Is cc1 backend or frontend?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-May-2003, Bernd Jendrissek <berndj@prism.co.za> wrote:
> I've seen mention of libbackend.a; maybe that's the backend proper, but I
> don't know.

Actually it's best to think of it as three parts: a language-specific
front-end, a language-independent and target-independent "middle-end",
and a target-specific back-end.  libbackend.a contains the middle-end
and the back-end.

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