On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > Well, he doesn't even consider that the exact same "tree rant" applies > to frontend code.
That's not entirely true, either. Most front ends already use their own IL in the parser (only C++ uses 'tree' for everything). What worries me most, is that we may end up with: FE-IL => 'tree' => gimple where 'tree' is just a memory-consuming, complicated intermediate step between the front ends and the middle end. I don't think that's the interface we want. Really the best place to start IMHO would be to evict 'tree' from the front ends. That would really be a step towards making the front ends independent of the rest of the compiler, and it would simplify changes towards static 'tree' types. Ciao! Steven
