From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:21:29 -0600 Message-ID: <854n3m51nq.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <8738jlohd6.fsf@yandex.ru> <83txc1bl83.fsf@gnu.org> <5300189A.9090208@yandex.ru> <83wqgv9fbj.fsf@gnu.org> <20140216180712.236069f6@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <87wqgr4v18.fsf@yandex.ru> <53064BD0.7070009@yandex.ru> <87ha7tr5bo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ppmhecd8.fsf@yandex.ru> <87mwhjdq32.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <530BA09C.70802@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393363300 25951 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2014 21:21:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:21:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 25 22:21:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WIPRi-0004QD-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:21:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37142 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WIPRh-0006Bb-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:21:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WIPRZ-00068s-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WIPRT-0003eq-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.229]:16265 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WIPRT-0003ek-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:21:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [75.87.81.6] ([75.87.81.6:50536] helo=TAKVER) by cdptpa-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id F9/A6-02678-A590D035; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:21:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:14:31 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.142:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: BaiduSpider X-Received-From: 107.14.166.229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169876 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > The lookup and completion features that people want can be implemented > > by making GCC answer questions sent to it, as Aspell does for M-$. > > That change would be welcome. I think it could be implemented using > > GCC's existing plug-in mechanism, but it would be better to put > > the code into GCC itself. > > Could it support a "daemon" mode? > > Yes. (Though I'm not sure how that differs, practically speaking, > from accepting commands on stdin and answering them on stdout.) > > I don't really see GCC itself doing that (at least, the last part). > It would require quite a bit of work that might be better left to > third-party developers. > > I hope some of the people on this list will help implement it. > I will try to ask GCC developers to develop it too. AdaCore has already done it, via the -fdump-xref option to gcc. -- -- Stephe