Hi folks, I've been looking at the documentation for writing a GCC front end and the common thing I believe I'm seeing is that the GCC front ends are all run through GCC (i.e. you're efficiently adding a new section of coding to the GCC program through softcode).
What I wish to do is create my own front end outside of GCC and then send the partly-processed code through the back end (i.e. an intermediate to assembly code transformation would be done by GCC - the High language to intermediate would be done by my program). Now, what would be ideal for me is if I could write the generated output into a file (I presume in RTL format, judging from what I've read) and then sending it straight into the backend. However, my initial research suggests that this is not possible and I will have to define a 'dummy language' to write into GCC. On the compiler level, I would like the split ideally to be: My program:- Lexical analysis, Syntax Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Intermediate Code Generation GCC backend:- Code optimization, (Final) code generation. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GCC-frontend-tp15338832p15338832.html Sent from the gcc - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
