On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, [UTF-8] Rafael Esp??ndola wrote: > I have put toghether a hack to remove the convert callback. It consists in > 1) adding a lang prefix to the implementations of convert (cxx_, c_, > gfc_, etc) > 2) defining a convert2 function that is basically a copy of c_convert > 3) converting the calls to convert to calls to the lang specif > implementations or convert2
I've a number of patches to clean-up the use of "convert" in GCC myself. If you'll give me a week or so to submit/commit them to the tree, it'll make your life much easier. My patches aim to remove all uses of "convert" from libbackend.a (simplifying the interface between the front-end and the middle-end). Once this is done, your task of renaming the functions gets much simpler. The trick is that not all of the "convert" functions behave identically, which is why basing convert2 on c_convert fails for g++, which really needs cp_convert. Instead of a new convert2, the middle-end should be using the existing fold_convert which performs the common language-independent conversions. Finally, I suspect that some front-ends, probably java, fortran and treelang, only define "convert" for use by the middle-end, which means once the middle-end is cleaned up these functions can be removed from their respective front-ends entirely. I hope this makes sense. Sorry for not noticing your post earlier. I tend to read the gcc list less frequently than gcc-patches. Roger --
