FW: Question about Gimple FE

[Jeff Law]

On 04/03/2015 09:30 AM, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:10 AM, xue yinsong <xyshh94225@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So it’s better not to try to read the exact dump format.
>> Could we use a similar but more complete syntax instead?
>
> Absolutely. The initial attempt for gimple fe was to use a tuple-based
> syntax that is very easy to parse. But that was only chosen because it
> simplifies parsing.
>
> You first need to design a text representation for the IL that allows
> conveying all the elements needed to instantiate the in-memory
> representation of gimple.
Crazy idea, what about something that's modeled after LLVM's representation?

Jeff