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- <h3 class="section">9.3 Gimplification pass</h3>
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- <p><em>Gimplification</em> is a whimsical term for the process of converting
- the intermediate representation of a function into the GIMPLE language
- (see <a href="GIMPLE.html#GIMPLE">GIMPLE</a>). The term stuck, and so words like “gimplification”,
- “gimplify”, “gimplifier” and the like are sprinkled throughout this
- section of code.
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- <p>While a front end may certainly choose to generate GIMPLE directly if
- it chooses, this can be a moderately complex process unless the
- intermediate language used by the front end is already fairly simple.
- Usually it is easier to generate GENERIC trees plus extensions
- and let the language-independent gimplifier do most of the work.
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- <p>The main entry point to this pass is <code>gimplify_function_tree</code>
- located in <samp>gimplify.c</samp>. From here we process the entire
- function gimplifying each statement in turn. The main workhorse
- for this pass is <code>gimplify_expr</code>. Approximately everything
- passes through here at least once, and it is from here that we
- invoke the <code>lang_hooks.gimplify_expr</code> callback.
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- <p>The callback should examine the expression in question and return
- <code>GS_UNHANDLED</code> if the expression is not a language specific
- construct that requires attention. Otherwise it should alter the
- expression in some way to such that forward progress is made toward
- producing valid GIMPLE. If the callback is certain that the
- transformation is complete and the expression is valid GIMPLE, it
- should return <code>GS_ALL_DONE</code>. Otherwise it should return
- <code>GS_OK</code>, which will cause the expression to be processed again.
- If the callback encounters an error during the transformation (because
- the front end is relying on the gimplification process to finish
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