On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:34:51 -0400 David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> wrote: > I'm aware of MELT - as I understand it, it's a Lisp variant.
Yes. However, I do have in the works an infix syntax of MELT called MILT. But it would just be an infix/prefix syntax of exactly the same language (more precisely, of a large subset of MELT). I mean that every syntactic construct in MELT will have its infix/prefix equivalent (e.g. MELT operations starting with + will be additive infix, etc..). I don't think that MELT lispy syntax matters that much. For the few users of MELT, the main issue is understand the details of GCC internal representations (Gimple & Tree, notably), not MELT syntax. I'm sure your Python hackers will have the same issue: understanding GCC details is hard (much harder than learning how to code in Python or in MELT). > > Languages and runtimes are a sensitive topic. For myself, I'm very fond > of Python and its syntax (and its community), and having that available > for writing GCC extensions is very appealing to me. The CPython runtime > may not be the fastest free software runtime, but it is flexible and > easy to debug. > > Although I'm new to GCC development, I feel that the more languages that > GCC can support for plugins and scripting, the better. There's already > a JavaScript plugin, and I didn't want the Python fans to feel left out. Agreed. > [Plus I'm using this code to analyse python's .c code, so I selfishly > hope that other python fans will want to help; by using python as the > extension language I hope I'll be more likely to get more contributors]. I actually dreamed that some Python C binding guru would make a MELT extension to analyze such things. Again, the issue is understanding GCC internals (mostly Gimple & Tree representations), and being able to specify a GCC pass doing such analysis. This also requires a deep understanding of Python -> C binding rules. Regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
