charfi asma <charfiasma@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I am developping my own gcc front end. My source language contains concepts that > are not represented directly in C code. > to compile those elements, I think that I should add a new tree codes to my > front end as C++ does for templates... > I think that I should also implement how to translate this new tree code in > Gimple. > my question is : should I also care about how to translate those tree code al > over the compiler chain: gimple --> ssa --> unssa --> rtl --> ass ... > did you suggest to follow an example of an existing front end that adds some > tree code cause the C++ one seems to be mature and complete. First let me say that if your language is very different from C you probably shouldn't be using trees at all. But if your language is mostly like C then using trees is reasonable. Even the C frontend itself has language-specific tree codes; see c-family/c-common.def. Or look at Objective C, at objc/objc-tree.def. Ian
