On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:43:44 +0200
Basile Starynkevitch <bas...@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> > The following tiny patch add some files to PLUGIN_HEADERS.
###### gcc/ChangeLog entry
2011-04-11 Basile Starynkevitch <bas...@starynkevitch.net>
* Makefile.in (PLUGIN_HEADERS): Add gimple-pretty-print.h
tree-pretty-print.h & realmpfr.h.
######
> Some more explanations about why I feel these files are badly needed
> for plugins (not only for MELT as a plugin, but for other plugins).
>
> Pretty printing routines are very useful to help understand, debug, and
> dump any additional passes, so plugin providing passes working on
> Gimple or Tree need the gimple-pretty-print.h & tree-pretty-print.h,
> since to call dumping or debug routines like debug_c_tree or
> print_declaration or dump_gimple_stmt you need to include these files.
> Please consider that people coding plugins know Gimple & Tree much
> less than GCC top level experts, and they are much more likely to
> need debug or dumping routines!
>
> The realmpfr.h file is needed to operate on tree or gimple containing
> real constants. For instance, a plugin to find all occurrences (in
> Gimple) of 3.14159 need it, or also a plugin which constant-fold the
> calls to <math.h> which are not already constant folded in GCC, or a
> plugin which constant-fold calls to some other (but less standard)
> numerical library.
Ok for trunk?
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Index: gcc/Makefile.in
===================================================================
--- gcc/Makefile.in (revision 172124)
+++ gcc/Makefile.in (working copy)
@@ -4534,6 +4534,7 @@
$(EXCEPT_H) tree-ssa-sccvn.h real.h output.h $(IPA_UTILS_H) \
$(C_PRAGMA_H) $(CPPLIB_H) $(FUNCTION_H) \
cppdefault.h flags.h $(MD5_H) params.def params.h prefix.h tree-inline.h \
+ gimple-pretty-print.h tree-pretty-print.h realmpfr.h \
$(IPA_PROP_H) $(RTL_H) $(TM_P_H) $(CFGLOOP_H) $(EMIT_RTL_H) version.h
# generate the 'build fragment' b-header-vars
