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Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:18:45 +0200 |
> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:03:27 +0100
>
> >I faced a similar disheartening intention (for quite different, but
> >still political) reasons when I worked on bidi support. I decided to
> >disregard and proceed, and the result is before your eyes.
>
> The crucial difference is that I could not have done this on my own, but
> that I would have needed lots of help from the GCC project, most
> importantly the willingness to actively support tooling based on GCC,
> which in the end means opening up the compiler further.
I think you greatly exaggerate your need for outside help and/or the
obstacles you'd need to face when you would have asked for such help.
Quite a few of GCC developers use Emacs, so finding individuals
motivated to help with this project should not be too hard.
> I'm pretty sure that eventually I would have needed changes
> upstream, either to make my life easier, or to retrieve information
> that isn't available in the AST. Even if RMS finally decides to
> tolerate an AST export, it is clear that he won't approve of the
> general direction that is needed to make GCC a contender in the
> tooling area.
I suggest that you take a look at libcc1.so in GCC 5 and its use by
GDB for injecting code into the debuggee. It might change your
perspective and your evaluation of the state of affairs, now and in
the future.
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, (continued)
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Nicholas Allegra, 2015/02/11
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/11
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Stefan Monnier, 2015/02/11
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, David Kastrup, 2015/02/11
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/11
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/02/12
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/12
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/02/12
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Richard Stallman, 2015/02/12
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, David Engster, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, David Engster, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, David Engster, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Richard Stallman, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, David Kastrup, 2015/02/11
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Richard Stallman, 2015/02/11
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, David Kastrup, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Stefan Monnier, 2015/02/10
- Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el, Richard Stallman, 2015/02/11