"Paulo J. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been looking into the gcc sources and I'm somewhat confused. > Are gcc/g++ comepletely independent programs or do they share a backend?
In the source code, they share a backend. As executables, they are different programs: cc1 and cc1plus. > This question comes from the fact that I was trying to find a point in > the source where I could get the GIMPLE tree and do with it what ever > I wished to, without modifying too many files but it seems that gcc, > g++ and other frontends have different program flows and only share > some data structures and backend sources. So probably I need to > eliminate the backend call in every frontend and after GIMPLE is > created call my own functions which get the GIMPLE tree and then > compile my files against every frontend. Right? I don't see why you would have to modify any code in the frontend. You would modify the middle-end code. Rebuilding the compiler would rebuild cc1, cc1plus, etc. Ian
