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-Right now there is no documentation for the GCC tree -> rtl interfaces
-(or more generally the interfaces for adding new languages).
-
-Such documentation would be of great benefit to the project. Until such
-time as we can formally start documenting the interface this file will
-serve as a repository for information on these interface and any incompatable
-changes we've made.
-
-Aug 31, 1998:
- The interface to HANDLE_PRAGMA has changed. It now takes three arguments.
- The first two are pointers to functions that should be used to read characters
- from the input stream, and to push them back into the input stream respectively.
- The third argument is a pointer to a null terminate string which is the first
- word after #pragma. The expression supplied by HANDLE_PRAGMA should return
- non-zero if it parsed and implemented the pragma. Otherwise it should return
- zero, and leave the input stream as it was before the expression was evaluated.
-
- A new back-end definable macro has been added: INSERT_ATTRIBUTES. This macro
- allows backend to add attributes to decls as they are created.
-
-Jun 10, 1998:
- The interface to lang_decode_option has changed. It now uses and argc/argv
- interface to allow for options that use more than one input string. The new
- declaration is: int lang_decode_option (int argc, char** argv). It now
- returns the number of input strings processed, or 0 if the option is
- unknown.
-
-Jun 7, 1998:
- Front-ends must now define lang_init_options. It is safe for this
- function to do nothing. See c-lang.c.
-
-Apr 21, 1998:
- Front ends which link with c-common or other files from the C/C++
- front-ends may need to handle TI types. Look for references to
- [unsigned]int_DI_type_node in your front end. If you have references
- to these variables, you'll need up update the front end.
-
- To update the front end you must mirror all the code which currently
- deals with intDI_type_node to also handle intTI_type_node.
-
-
-Apr 7, 1998:
- The interface between toplev.c and the language front ends for opening the
- source file has changed:
-
- o init_lex() has been renamed to init_parse (char *filename) where filename
- is the name of the source file.
- o The code in toplev.c which opened the source file should be moved to
- the new init_parse function.
- o toplev.c now calls finish_parse() instead of closing the source file
- using fclose(). This should now be done in finish_parse, if necessary.
-
-Apr 1, 1998:
- Front-ends must now define lang_print_xnode. It is safe for this
- function to do nothing. See c-lang.c.
-
-Feb 1, 1998:
-
- GCC used to store structure sizes & offsets to elements as bitsize
- quantities. This causes problems because a structure can only be
- (target memsize / 8) bytes long (this may effect arrays too). This
- is particularly problematical on machines with small address spaces.
-
- So:
-
- All trees that represent sizes in bits should have a TREE_TYPE of
- bitsizetype (rather than sizetype).
-
- Accordingly, when such values are computed / initialized, care has to
- be takes to use / compute the proper type.
-
- When a size in bits is converted into a size in bytes, which is expressed
- in trees, care should be taken to change the tree's type again to sizetype.
-
- We've updated C, C++, Fortran & Objective-C to work with the new
- scheme. Other languages will need to be updated accordingly.
- Contact amylaar@cygnus.com for additional information.
-
-?? 1997:
-
- In an effort to decrease cache thrashing and useless loads we've changed the
- third argument to the DEFTREECODE macro to be a single char. This will
- effect languages that defined their own tree codes (usually in a .def file).
-
- Old way:
-
- DEFTREECODE (CLASS_METHOD_DECL, "class_method_decl", "d", 0)
-
- New way:
-
- DEFTREECODE (CLASS_METHOD_DECL, "class_method_decl", 'd', 0)