New feature -fdump-gimple-nodes

[Robert Dubner]

Oh, crap.  This is *not* an auspicious beginning.

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Bob Dubner.

From: Robert Dubner <rdubner@symas.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 14:01
To: 'GCC Mailing List' <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: New feature -fdump-gimple-nodes

I have not contributed to GCC before, so I am not sure how to go about it.
So, I am letting you know what I want to do, so that I can get advice on
the best way to do it.  I have read https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html,
and I have

Jim Lowden and I have been developing a COBOL front end for GCC.  He's
primarily been parsing the language.  It's been my task to generate the
GENERIC/GIMPLE trees for the parsed code.  We've been working at this for
a couple of years.  We have reached the point where we want to start
submitting patches for the community to evaluate.

I figured I would start small, where "small" means mainly one new source
code file of 1,580 lines.