Re: Some questions about writing a front end

2008-04-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Tim Josling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:24 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> Tim Josling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > 5. What is deprecated: Is there any time-effective way to identify >> > constructs, header files, macros, variable and functions that are >> > "dep

Re: Some questions about writing a front end

2008-04-30 Thread Tim Josling
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:24 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Tim Josling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 5. What is deprecated: Is there any time-effective way to identify > > constructs, header files, macros, variable and functions that are > > "deprecated". > > Not really. We try not to leave

Re: Some questions about writing a front end

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Tim" == Tim Josling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> 1. Sample front-end: Given treelang no longer exists and "is not a good Tim> example anyway" what would be the best front end to use as a model and Tim> to plagiarize code? Tim> What I don't know is how up-to-date the various front ends

Re: Some questions about writing a front end

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Tim Josling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Most-Gimplified front-end: Allied to Q1, which front ends have been > most thoroughly converted to GIMPLE? They've all been converted to generate GENERIC, or they wouldn't work. > 3. LANG_HOOKS: There has been some discussion about LANG_HOOKS being >