but gcc manual 2008, gcc internals 2008, many articles and figures in GCC summit 2006, 2007 and 2008 talk about GENERIC ? did C front end call the function c_genericize or not ? thank you Asma ----- Message d'origine ---- De : Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> À : charfi asma <charfiasma@xxxxxxxx> Cc : Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx>; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Envoyé le : Mercredi, 24 Juin 2009, 11h56mn 33s Objet : Re: Re : Generation of GENERIC tree charfi asma wrote: > > I am interested too in the GENERIC > tree > I compile hello.cpp using g++ > -fdump-tree-all, I do not get a generic intermediate representation, > there was (.tu, .class, .original, .gimple, .vcg ...) > To look at the GENERIC tree, I > compile hello.java using gcj (as mentioned in the answer bellow: "I > recommend looking at any gcc frontend other than the C/C++ frontends > to see how it is done....") > But when I compile java file using > the same option (fdump-tree-all) I do not get .generic as I expect.. > Before .gimple, gcj generate only .original That's right. gcj transforms its front-end trees straight into GIMPLE. I can't see any purpose to going via GENERIC. Andrew.