Proposed plugin API for GCC

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Ludovic Courtès
<ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> skribis:
>
>> We do not want plugins to constrain internal development.  So if we
>> adopted your approach, the only honest option would be to mark
>> everything as internal.  And that would leave us where we are today.
>
> My (limited) experience suggests that things aren’t that bad between 4.5
> and 4.7, at least for the tree, cgraph, and gimple subsets that my
> plug-in uses.

Yes, but the time span between 4.5 and 4.7 is relatively small compared
to, say the EGCS days, or even the 3.x.y days.  A lot has changed.  I do
actually expect a lot to change in the 4.8-4.10 time frame once we
agreed on rules governing C++ usage in GCC -- I can tell you that we
have several projects in the pipeline.

-- Gaby