>>>>> "Taras" == Taras Glek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> LD_PRELOAD would work just as well as having gcc directly support Tom> plugins, provided that certain internal things are never made Tom> file-local. Someone could write a helper library to make it Tom> relatively simple to hook in. But... I looked at this recently, and Tom> since gcc is not linked with -rdynamic, it is a non-starter. Taras> Tom, I don't know much about linkers and LD_PRELOAD. Would making Taras> LD_PRELOAD work be easier than making an unstable plugin API? Not really. The difference would be that with LD_PRELOAD the gcc change would be very small -- just linking with -rdynamic. Maybe you could lobby a Linux distro for this :-) But even if the gcc change is small, you'd still want to write and maintain about the same amount of code to let plugins interface with the pass manager. Tom
