Re: GCC middle-end

2005-12-15 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Thomas Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *) is GIMPLE truely front-end independent (no nore specific hacks)? Yes, mostly. There are some so-called "lang-hooks" to ask some additional information to the frontend, but it's mainly about the type system (eg: there is a langhook to ask the fronten

GCC middle-end

2005-12-15 Thread Thomas Lavergne
Dear all, I would like to have a brief chat in order to understand (roughly) the way gcc deals with optimization and language-independent function's representation. I read already some documents (not the gcc internal doc) and am aware of GENERIC, GIMPLE, tree SSA but I am not confident on se