[tuples/LTO] RFC: houghts on auto-generating GS_* data structures

[Diego Novillo]

On 6/26/07 4:08 PM, Diego Novillo wrote:

> But, first, I'd like to know what folks think about this.  Would it be
> generally useful for us to have the IL data structures auto-generated
> this way?  I can see the benefits in the reader/writer.  But also, we
> are going to have to re-implement the reader/writer when we move GIMPLE
> out of the tree data structures.  OTOH, we will probably change them,
> add new codes and having them autogenerated may have other advantages.

One thing I forgot to add is that auto-generating .h files is not really
necessary.  We can always parse the .h files directly.  As long as we
have either easy to spot markers (a-la GTY) or just write the structs in
a clear manner, it should be straightforward.