1 Right now there is no documentation for the GCC tree -> rtl interfaces
2 (or more generally the interfaces for adding new languages).
4 Such documentation would be of great benefit to the project. Until such
5 time as we can formally start documenting the interface this file will
6 serve as a repository for information on these interface and any incompatable
10 The interface to lang_decode_option has changed. It now uses and argc/argv
11 interface to allow for options that use more than one input string. The new
12 declaration is: int lang_decode_option (int argc, char** argv). It now
13 returns the number of input strings processed, or 0 if the option is
17 Front-ends must now define lang_init_options. It is safe for this
18 function to do nothing. See c-lang.c.
21 Front ends which link with c-common or other files from the C/C++
22 front-ends may need to handle TI types. Look for references to
23 [unsigned]int_DI_type_node in your front end. If you have references
24 to these variables, you'll need up update the front end.
26 To update the front end you must mirror all the code which currently
27 deals with intDI_type_node to also handle intTI_type_node.
31 The interface between toplev.c and the language front ends for opening the
32 source file has changed:
34 o init_lex() has been renamed to init_parse (char *filename) where filename
35 is the name of the source file.
36 o The code in toplev.c which opened the source file should be moved to
37 the new init_parse function.
38 o toplev.c now calls finish_parse() instead of closing the source file
39 using fclose(). This should now be done in finish_parse, if necessary.
42 Front-ends must now define lang_print_xnode. It is safe for this
43 function to do nothing. See c-lang.c.
47 GCC used to store structure sizes & offsets to elements as bitsize
48 quantities. This causes problems because a structure can only be
49 (target memsize / 8) bytes long (this may effect arrays too). This
50 is particularly problematical on machines with small address spaces.
54 All trees that represent sizes in bits should have a TREE_TYPE of
55 bitsizetype (rather than sizetype).
57 Accordingly, when such values are computed / initialized, care has to
58 be takes to use / compute the proper type.
60 When a size in bits is converted into a size in bytes, which is expressed
61 in trees, care should be taken to change the tree's type again to sizetype.
63 We've updated C, C++, Fortran & Objective-C to work with the new
64 scheme. Other languages will need to be updated accordingly.
65 Contact amylaar@cygnus.com for additional information.
69 In an effort to decrease cache thrashing and useless loads we've changed the
70 third argument to the DEFTREECODE macro to be a single char. This will
71 effect languages that defined their own tree codes (usually in a .def file).
75 DEFTREECODE (CLASS_METHOD_DECL, "class_method_decl", "d", 0)
79 DEFTREECODE (CLASS_METHOD_DECL, "class_method_decl", 'd', 0)