Re: [Gomp-discuss] Somethings to think about ....

[Biagio Lucini]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Lars Segerlund wrote:

>   Now we have had a lot of frontend discussions, and is there a frontend
> that emits CIL ? This would make it a bit easier for us to try out our
> middle end with a CIL -> GENERIC translation. ( Please, I don't know
> enough about this, this might be a good or bad idea ).
>

CIL -> GENERIC -> GIMPLE -> ....

Isn't that becoming too complicated? After all, you need just one IR...
How can this be dealth with?

>   If we pick GENERIC as a starting point then we need the docs on it,
> and then need to document the extensions we need. When we have a
> specification of this we can start working on both end's, front and backend.
>

That's a good point. Is there documentation available or at least planned?
Steven, weren't you doing something on that?

>   I think it's a sound strategy to start of with GENERIC, is this
> something everyone agrees on ?
>

This sounds great to me.

Cheers
Biagio