[plugins-ici-cloning-instrumentation] new GCC plugin developements

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Grigori Fursin wrote:
> Hi Basile,
> 
> Well, the point of ICI is actually not to hardwire specific events at the beginning 
> but allow users/researchers easily add their own hooks referenced by any string 
> to simplify prototyping of new ideas. Then if they see that it is useful and they
> can persuade the community about that, those hooks go to the mainline and are hardwired
> in the PLUGIN_* event ...


My intuition was that ICI need a single (or probably a few) hook to replace the entire pass manager....
Then the ICI plugin would call the existing GCC passes in the order it wants....

Regards.
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