Re: Frontend for C with gcc extensions

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>
6 Oct 2000 02:09:38 -0400

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Oct 2000 02:09:38 -0400
Organization: University of California, Irvine
References: 00-09-200
Keywords: C, GCC

"Andrey S. Bokhanko" <ruff@mcst.ru> writes:


    > Hello all,
    >
    > Does anyone know of a freely available (in source code) C frontend that
    > understands GNU C extensions?
    >
    > The obvious answer -- gcc frontend itself doesn't count, because it's
    > not frontend in traditional sence -- it's rather an inextricable mix
    > of frontend and backend.


Check the latest development versions of GCC from CVS on gcc.gnu.org.
Now the frontend first builds the tree for a whole function and
then transforms it to RTL, not as it was done before on a per
expression basis. Documentation on how to access the parse tree is
also available.


--dan

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