gcc extensibility

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Ludovic Courtès
<ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> skribis:
>
>> I do not think people working on plugins have come up with a
>> specification and an API they agree on.
>
> I think it’s wrong to consider plug-ins as second-class citizens.

Nobody has made that assertion that you are finding wrong so far.

> The plug-in mechanism is just a technical means to allow people to
> extend the compiler without having to have their code checked in the
> main tree.

That was understood.

-- Gaby