On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:46, Pjotr Kourzanov <peter.kourza...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Should we not have a way to specify a plugin in the source itself? > This could be achieved by tagging a function with a __plugin__ > attribute (or a #pragma), exporting the PluginAPI as a bunch of > built-in functions and having the compiler itself (1) ensure that such > functions only call portable built-ins, and (2) compiling/executing or > interpreting them as compilation passes. Then, the code can just > #include a source-level plugin to have it available just for that > translation unit. But then, what would be the difference between this and just adding your pass to the compiler? I'm not sure I understand what this would buy you in terms of simplicity. Perhaps I'm missing something. Diego.
