On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <bas...@starynkevitch.net> wrote: > Hello All, > > I feel that the current plugin hooks, that is the set of plugin events > enumerated in the enum plugin_event of gcc/gcc-plugin.h and the associated > API in gcc/plugin.h (e.g. register_attribute) is perhaps still incomplete. > > My feeling is that adding plugin events (at least those for which > invoke_plugin_callbacks is not called a lot of times) is a negligible > addition that fits well in the current stage 3 of the trunk. > What do you think about that? > > The point is that some plugins will need a lot more hooks, and that waiting > for 4.6 or 5.0 (i.e. the next release after 4.5 from current trunk) will > delay them possibly for at least a year. And adding these additional hooks > seems easy and reasonable now. And perhaps adding new functions (I am > thinking of register_plugin_builtin) to facilitate plugin extensions. > > I started adding a new wiki page http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugin%20hooks to > list the possible addition that should go into trunk > > Comments are welcome. > > Should I try to propose some patches to gcc-patches@ about that, or is it > impossible in the current stage3 of the trunk?
Adding hooks just because you think they might be useful isn't the way to go. Richard.
