-fdump-translation-unit considered harmful

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:

Joe> That said, in the long term the free software world needs good code
Joe> analysis tools, so I suspect that at some point the FSF will have to
Joe> revisit this policy.

These seem to be under development outside of GCC -- there's both
sparse and the C/C++ parsing stuff in Eclipse.  Maybe GCC already
missed the boat here.  For all we know things will go the other way
and in a few years we'll be looking at how to use these external front
ends instead of ours :-)

Tom