Design Considerations of GIMPLE Front End

[Diego Novillo]

[ apologies for the duplicate message.  My previous reply was bounced
by the ML. ]

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:52, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/18/2010 04:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> > On 18/05/2010 15:17, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>> >
>> >> IMHO, ideally we would have a syntax that is human readable and human
>> >> writable. S-expressions are not as easy to read for me as something
>> >> that resembles C.
>> >
>> >   I'd like it that way too, but I acknowledge that it would be more work and
>> > it's not me who'd have to do that extra work...
>>
>> Well, it can always be changed later, but there's a lot to be said for
>> not spending time now writing a parser, and getting on with the project.
>> It's a matter of taste anyway.
>
Yup.  This shade of blue can be changed later.  Sandi, let's start
with the S-expression syntax for everything.  Richard is correct in
pointing out that even gimple expressions have metadata associated
with them that will need to be represented.


Diego.