Re: Defending GCC considered futile

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:54:37 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Modularizing GCC is not discouraged.  It actually happens as
> > > > we speak, check out the latest developments in GCC 5 and GDB.
> > > 
> > > If this is the case, what is the problem with Emacs directly
> > > linking against the GCC front end to get access to the C and
> > > C++ AST?
> > 
> > I don't know, you tell me.
> 
> Btw, I don't really know what you mean by "front end" above, but if
> you think the modularization of GCC means separating the back-end,
> i.e. the part that is target-dependent, then that's not what how
> it's done in this case.  There's more than one way to make a
> compiler modular and easy to use by other programs.

I mostly just meant "getting API access to the part that parses things
and generates an AST", nothing about GCC's architecture in
particular was implied.

Perry
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