Re: [Pnet-developers] IL tree dump routine

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 09:17 am, Peter \"Firefly\" Lund wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Rhys Weatherley wrote:

> > I assume that you are referring to the tree nodes in the compiler.  Such
> > a feature does not exist.
>
> If I wrote one, would it then have a chance of being committed?

It would depend upon how clean/simple it was, just like all patches.  The best 
way would be to add an "ILNode_Dump" operation to the treecc definition.

One thing we want to avoid is creating a dump format that can be used to 
export the entire contents of the tree to external tools.  That would allow 
people to circumvent the GPL by adding their own back ends that process the 
dump format rather than link against the main compiler code.  (Theoretically, 
anyone could add such a dump format anyway if they really wanted to, but we 
don't want to make it easy for them).

So, debug code is OK as long as it is just debug code.  Semantic richness in 
the output format would be bad though.

Cheers,

Rhys.