On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:12:19 -0800 Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > Any gcc developer who feels that this proposal is a good idea, please > chime in here. > > I personally do not feel it is worth the effort. It's easy to use a > more powerful macro processor, such as m4, to generate your C code.
I agree with Ian, but with a small caveat. I feel that the (current GCC 4.6 or trunk) preprocessor has not enough plugin hooks. I think that adding enough plugin hooks into the preprocessor so that someone could (if he really wanted) develop a GCC plugin which e.g. interfaces some interpreter (e.g. Guile) to the preprocessor would be good. I don't find R.A's proposal (eval in the preprocessor) interesting to me, but I would like GCC to offer enough plugin hooks so that we could reply: just make a GCC plugin (and I would add "just make a MELT extension") to satisfy your dreams. I would believe we cannot reply that to R.A today for GCC 4.6 (perhaps I am wrong), and it would be better if we could suggest him to make a GCC plugin, that is if a future GCC provided enough plugin hooks for that. Cheers. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
