GCC IMA & general future proposal

[Jan Hubicka]

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Geoff Keating wrote:
> 
> > I've put a quick draft of my idea of what the future of GCC should look like
> > at
> > 
> > <http://www.geoffk.org/gcc/future/gccfuture.html>
> 
> It is still useful in such a framework for front ends to be able to handle 
> multiple translation units at once as C does, and pass off GENERIC for all 
> of them to the next level at once, so that various cross-translation-unit 
> consistency checks can be made which depend on language-specific rules.

Also for C++ you don't need to end up with duplicated template bodies
everywhere. I think that KDE use the trick of including multiple C++
files together to reduce this overhead so they might give us some
statistics...

I will look into the draft tonight

Honza
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