GCC 4.5 and DragonEgg

[Richard Guenther]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Amine Khaldi <amine48rz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like first to thank you for the upcoming 4.5 release. I'm really looking
> forward to updating.
>
> I'm also interested in the DragonEgg project (http://dragonegg.llvm.org/)
> that aims to use llvm as a GCC backed.
>
> DragonEgg in its actual state needs a patch applied to GCC in order to
> function, which, as a user, I find really unfortunate, as it forces me to
> build gcc in order to try out DragonEgg.
>
> I would really like to see this patch integrated into GCC, so that there
> won't be any need to recompile GCC, and just compile and use the plugin.

This is a bug in the DragonEgg plugin implementation which should
restrict itself to using proper interfaces.

Richard.