On Tuesday 10 of April 2012 10:46:14 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 04:34:32PM -0700, Xinliang David Li wrote: > > Class hierarchy is one such feature that is useful. Assuming we have > > two hierarchies for gcc: one for values rooted at ValExp, and one for > > gimple stmts rooted at GimpInst. > > > > 1) For IR browsing, > > *) all the macro accessors can be eliminated -- a big plus for debugging; > > Not that clear, if all the macros are replaced by tons of inline functions, > the debugging experience can be actually significantly worse.
debugabilty can be improved with set of gdb python pretty printers which could present gcc's structures in human readable form (instead of union mix).
