On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:59, Steve Ellcey <s...@cup.hp.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:51 +0800, Mingjie Xing wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Does anyone have tried to translate whirl to gcc rtl? Or in the other >> words, use gcc's code generator plus open64's optimizer. I'm wondering >> if it is practical and useful. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Would whirl2c followed by an invocation of GCC work for you? >> >> Regards, >> Mingjie > > I am not aware of any whirl to rtl translators. If anyone were to look > into such a thing I would recommend tanslating into GCC trees instead of > into RTL. GCC trees are more generic then RTL and would be easier to > deal with, especially given the GCC plugin model that was added in GCC > 4.5. Agreed. One other solution is to adapt whirl2c to produce Gimple that will have a front-end in GCC 4.7 or so, see http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GimpleFrontEnd Sebastian Pop -- AMD / Open Source Compiler Engineering / GNU Tools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Open64-devel mailing list Open64-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open64-devel
