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Re:Testing GCC by wolf550e on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:17PM (#13639299)
So all that hasn't existed for ages. Only dumping the intermediate representation has existed for ages, but not loading it and not running the middle-end of the compiler on the loaded IR.
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Re:Testing GCC by DannyBee on Monday February 13, 2017 @10:27PM (#13640920)
Right, the historical problem with loading GIMPLE was that it still required all sorts of frontend specific bits.

Also, tons of things reused tons of bits for different purposes :)

Way the heck back when (pre-c++), i started splitting up just the decl hierarchy in trees to try to get things to stop reusing bits, and to expose what would be required to make it independent of the frontendy bits.

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Re:Testing GCC by dmalcolm on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:46PM (#13639542)
[author of the post here] Correct: loading the IR dumps back in is new.
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