On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Aldy Hernandez <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Despite what Go thinks: > > /* The debug hooks are used to implement -fdump-go-spec because it > gives a simple and stable API for all the information we need to > dump. */ > > ...the debug hooks are not stable... :).
Alas. > With this patch I have done my best to give Go what it wants without > recreating what the front-ends were doing. I've made the go_decl() call > work from within the early_global_decl() hook which gets called as we parse > (rest_of_decl_compilation). I far as I understand, this hack is a one-time > thing for use internally in the build process, so we don't care whether > go_decl() will receive location information?? That is true: the goal is to output the declarations in Go syntax; location information is irrelevant. > Is there not a more modern way of Go getting the DECLs it needs without > abusing the debug_hook machinery? I don't know. Thanks for working on this. Have you tried building with --enable-languages=go? On a GNU/Linux system it should build and pass all tests with no extra effort. Ian
