"Paulo J. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
Yes. > 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? GIMPLE is more-or-less documented in the gcc internals manual. Ian
