Defining a common plugin machinery

Diego Novillo dnovillo@google.com
Sat Sep 20 08:42:00 GMT 2008


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 13:16, Basile STARYNKEVITCH
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:

> I would be delighted if that would be easily possible, but I remember having
> asked at some LTO related session or meeting if LTO can be extended to add
> some additional data, and the answer was "we don't want to do that".

I have no memory of that.  But in principle, I don't see why this
couldn't be done by either storing extended statement attributes or a
new section in the LTO output.  Of course, the plugin would have to be
responsible for producing and consuming this data.


Diego.



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