Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:13:30 -0500 Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
wrote:
>   > But I believe you have asked in the interim that GCC not be
>   > made more modular out of fear of proprietary reuse of the front
>   > or back end.
> 
> If you are talking about outputting ASTs, that has nothing to do
> with how modular GCC is.  This is a different issue.

If this is the case, returning to an earlier issue:

It might not per se necessary that Emacs have access to the AST in
textual form. If GCC or part of GCC could be called as a library from
within Emacs to access the AST via an API, that might be sufficient.
I don't yet have an opinion on whether it would be more or less
convenient than having the AST in some other form, but it would
certainly permit Emacs to have arbitrary access to semantic
information about the program being edited.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                address@hidden