Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > My hope is that we can work out a kind of "detailed output" that is
  > > enough for what Emacs wants, but not enough for misuse of GCC front ends.

  > Anyone can write a GCC plugin that simply outputs the AST in some
  > form.

We are not talking about the same thing.  What I have in mind is to
output considerably LESS than the AST -- just enough to do the
completion and other operations that Emacs needs, and NO MORE.

To figure out just what Emacs needs, that's the task I am talking
about.

  >   Instead, is there anyone here who would
  > > like to work on this in detail?

  > I'm already working on it.

Are you working on outputting just the data that Emacs needs for
completion?

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