Comments on: Dehydra as a GCC plugin http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2008/01/08/dehydra-as-a-gcc-plugin/ Just another Blog.mozilla.com weblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2008/01/08/dehydra-as-a-gcc-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-10403 Daniel Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:33:15 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2008/01/08/dehydra-as-a-gcc-plugin/#comment-10403 Hi Tara, I'm going to respectfully disagree about the utility of the gcc code base. I think it is very hard to add to or even build. It is poorly maintained and has poor documentation. building a cross compiler is a nightmare, so improvements are very slow. My experience has been that obscene compile times lead to unhelpful failure messages, and even hardcore programmers are left scratching their heads because of the messy undocumented gcc internals. Anyhow, I'm just saying. gcc is a good binary and a bad dream for compiler researchers. Stay away from it if you can, suffer endlessly if you can't. Hi Tara,

I’m going to respectfully disagree about the utility of the gcc code base. I think it is very hard to add to or even build. It is poorly maintained and has poor documentation. building a cross compiler is a nightmare, so improvements are very slow. My experience has been that obscene compile times lead to unhelpful failure messages, and even hardcore programmers are left scratching their heads because of the messy undocumented gcc internals.

Anyhow, I’m just saying. gcc is a good binary and a bad dream for compiler researchers. Stay away from it if you can, suffer endlessly if you can’t.

]]> By: Myk Melez http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2008/01/08/dehydra-as-a-gcc-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-10052 Myk Melez Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:08:46 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2008/01/08/dehydra-as-a-gcc-plugin/#comment-10052 At foss.in last month I attended a fascinating presentation on gcc internals. It might be a good way to get a general sense of the architecture: http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=409 The slides are available here: http://foss.in/2007/register/slides/GCC_Internals__A_Conceptual_View_into_GCC_409.pdf At foss.in last month I attended a fascinating presentation on gcc internals. It might be a good way to get a general sense of the architecture:

http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=409

The slides are available here:

http://foss.in/2007/register/slides/GCC_Internals__A_Conceptual_View_into_GCC_409.pdf

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