Re: Question about code generation

[Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

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

Is MELT still a thing?  Should be inactive since 2017 according to
<http://starynkevitch.net/basile/gcc-melt/>

  Andrea