[gimplefe] [gsoc16] Gimple Front End Project

[Eric Botcazou]

> If the gimple IR were a strict subset of GNU C, then by all means
> let's re-use the C FE. However, gimple encodes things that are
> necessary for other languages but are not C. C++ gimple dumps have
> try-finally. Fortran dumps use explicit parentheses "((x))". Surely,
> Ada adds its own quirks to gimple.

No, it doesn't, only to GENERIC, i.e. everything is lowered in GIMPLE and as 
far as I know there are no Ada-specific constructs in GIMPLE, so you can take 
Ada completely out of the picture here.

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Eric Botcazou