Daniel Berlin wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 16:25 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Mattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Mike> Has anyone ever tried to build a scripting interface into the guts of >> Mike> GCC with something like SWIG ? >> >> I've heard of a couple efforts along these lines -- once with Scheme >> and once with Python. I don't know if either used SWIG. Neither one >> was submitted to GCC. Both were obscure enough that, even now, I >> can't really be sure they ever existed :-) > > I will admit i SWIG'd gcc, once, and generated python wrappers, but this > was before tree-ssa, so it wasn't all that useful. > > There is some appeal to being able to prototype passes, etc, in python. > It's a ton of work to get the bindings going though. > > Maybe SWIG is much better than it was, in which case, cool!
That was my biggest question about the idea, gcc's internal data structures are very sophisticated. In either event I will find out for myself soon enough. It is good to know that someone else has tried , it would be bizarre if no one had thought of it before. >> Tom >> > >
