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Re: [RFA] convert blocks to dictionaries, phase 1, main part


On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 03:49  PM, Andrew Cagney wrote:
ndamental data structures and algorithms completly replaced.
I think this is just as true of GDB.

Can you expand.  GCC is getting an entirely new tree representation.  I don't see GDB getting anything that fundamental.

No it isn't.
The IR is being changed, but the changes are not revolution, they are evolution, as you put it.

This is not some major data structure change, it involves changing some enums and macro names, and changing the functions as appropriate for new semantics.

Of course, i'm summarizing a large amount of code (I work on the branch in question every day :P) in one sentence, so someone may take issue with it.
But in terms of "how deep it goes", this is as fundamental as the changes GDB needs in the areas i mentioned.
No more, no less.

It may seem more fundamental to someone who doesn't work on the internals of compilers, but trust me, it's not.
Well that excludes me.

Andrew



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