Re: Question about code generation

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On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 01:00:51PM -0400, Andrea Corallo wrote:

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> I think in this case libgccjit goes the other way of what would be need
> here.  Libgccjit allowed us to develop an Elisp front-end while here the
> frontend we need is already the C one that comes with GCC.
> 
> What we want is a GCC plugin, essentially a custom pass that analyses
> say lisp.h and output something (in this case some C code).
> 
> Not many people know that should be even possible to write it in python
> thanks to David Malcolm work
> <https://gcc-python-plugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>, certanly not
> Elisp :/ but probably quicker than doing it in C.

And then, there is MELT [1], by Basile Starynkevitch, which, AFAIR is
a Lispy GCC plugin.

Cheers

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/MiddleEndLispTranslator
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