FW: Question about Gimple FE

[Diego Novillo]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?

I was hesitant to offer this option, but it's certainly a good
starting point.  The representation encodes CFG, SSA, attributes,
declarations and annotations.  It has a relatively fixed syntax, which
makes it easy to parse.


Diego.