Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 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. > > True. The above applies to Fortran and Ada, and maybe also to Go > and Java.
just for completeness this also applies to Modula-2 which uses the technique of double book keeping. Not sure if this is totally relevant but gm2 needs (would like :-) the ability to create a SET_TYPE which maps onto appropriate debugging type info. regards, Gaius
