"cscope" type functionality

[Perry Smith]

How do I keep track of the "LTO" design process?  I may not be able  
to help 'cause I don't know enough about gcc's internals but I'd like  
to if possible.

On Feb 13, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> | I think it would be more advisable to design something with AST
>> | database generation as an explicit goal.
>>
>> I believe that is a sensible approach, one that I thought a by- 
>> product
>> of the "Link Time Optimization" proposal.  Such a format will be
>> tremendously useful.
>
> Yes, that was part of the motivation for the LTO design that Kenny, I,
> and others developed: such a database "falls out" of that design, with
> relatively minimal additional effort.  However, whether or not that
> proposal will be implemented is still an open question, dependent on
> demand, technological evaluation relative to other approaches for
> link-time optimization (notably, LLVM), and available resources.
>
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