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diff --git a/gcc-4.2.1-5666.3/gcc/doc/languages.texi b/gcc-4.2.1-5666.3/gcc/doc/languages.texi deleted file mode 100644 index 514cb08ec..000000000 --- a/gcc-4.2.1-5666.3/gcc/doc/languages.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -@c Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -@c This is part of the GCC manual. -@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. - -@node Languages -@chapter Language Front Ends in GCC - -The interface to front ends for languages in GCC, and in particular -the @code{tree} structure (@pxref{Trees}), was initially designed for -C, and many aspects of it are still somewhat biased towards C and -C-like languages. It is, however, reasonably well suited to other -procedural languages, and front ends for many such languages have been -written for GCC@. - -Writing a compiler as a front end for GCC, rather than compiling -directly to assembler or generating C code which is then compiled by -GCC, has several advantages: - -@itemize @bullet -@item GCC front ends benefit from the support for many different -target machines already present in GCC@. -@item GCC front ends benefit from all the optimizations in GCC@. Some -of these, such as alias analysis, may work better when GCC is -compiling directly from source code then when it is compiling from -generated C code. -@item Better debugging information is generated when compiling -directly from source code than when going via intermediate generated C -code. -@end itemize - -Because of the advantages of writing a compiler as a GCC front end, -GCC front ends have also been created for languages very different -from those for which GCC was designed, such as the declarative -logic/functional language Mercury. For these reasons, it may also be -useful to implement compilers created for specialized purposes (for -example, as part of a research project) as GCC front ends. |