On 10 September 2010 11:42, Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Not that I want to discourage anyone. Just practical considerations... >> ;-) I can't believe I'm saing this but: It may be better to spend >> some effort on making clang work as a GCC front end. > > Oh, indeed - I'd welcome patches making "frontend plugins" possible > and plugging clang.
I wonder what would actually be needed to implement this? Since clang keeps around more information than GCC's FEs. New plugin hooks? I don't think you need FE plugins but a LLVM->GIMPLE converter plug to the gimplifier. Is adding code to GCC to handle LLVM intermediate language acceptable? Cheers, Manuel.
