why gengtype not a filter for GTY?

[Daniel Berlin]

On 11/28/06, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
>
> Dear All (and especially those implied in the GCC internal garbage
> collector).
>
> I read (and contributed a bit to) http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Memory_management
> and also read http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Type-Information.html
>
> However, there is still a question which puzzles me a lot? Why gengtype is
> not a sort of filter or generator (like yacc is) taking a (list of) files on
> input and producing a file on output?
>
> More precisely, why gengtype does not take the name of files to be parsed
> for GTY(()) thru its program argument (ie argc,argv of its main - they are
> explicitly marked as unused in $GCCTOP/gcc/gengtype.c)
>
> I would believe it should make things simpler (in a lot of places) but I
> cannot understand why it is not so? Why are the set of files to be parsed
> for GTY()) so hard-coded in gengtype?
>

Because nobody has had the urge to change it yet?

> BTW, it is strange that gengtype* files do not mention anyauthor or
> contributor (with an email to contact them)?


IF you wrote gengtype, the way it is now, would you want to be listed
as the author?
:)
I kid, I kid.