Hello all, After reading the internals of gcc wikibooks some questions come up. So, gcc has front end for C, C++, java, fortran, etc.. All these languages have a frontend which parse into AST and then GIMPLE which is converted to RTX and then assembly. Now, my guess is that GIMPLE is the _common_ ground for all languages. No matter which language, all will go through GIMPLE, so if I wished to implement some language analysis / optimizations, I should do it in GIMPLE to be able to implement in one go the optimization for all languages, right?
Is there any formal syntax/semantics for GIMPLE? Or the SIMPLE paper is the only thing with this stuff? Any reference to the differences between GIMPLE and SIMPLE? Regards, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK
