On 19 April 2007 08:47, Brooks Moses wrote:
> J.C. Pizarro wrote:
>> In the attachment there is a quick&dirty alpha patch that i don't known
>> why the gcc compiler says "gcc: unrecognized option '-html'". ???
>> I don't known where to modify the gcc code to add an option.
>>
>> The XHTML format to fputs is a little bad.
>>
>> There are examples to test too.
>>
>> The idea is to filter the output stream.
>
> I think it makes a lot more sense to implement this as a standalone
> filter for the output stream, which takes the files that contain the
> current dump-tree output and converts it to HTML. You don't lose any
> functionality by doing that, and there's no compelling reason for adding
> the extra complexity to the tree-dumpers themselves if we don't need to.
>
> Certainly it can be a useful idea to have more ways of viewing the dump
> files than just reading the plaintext in a text editor, but it seems
> more sensible to me to consider the plaintext-to-HTML conversion as an
> aspect of a standalone "viewer" system, rather than as an aspect of the
> compiler.
I agree. It would fit nicely as a script in the contrib/ directory.
cheers,
DaveK
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