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patch to enable *.cc files in gengtype

Message ID 20130902075801.GA981@ours.starynkevitch.net
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Basile Starynkevitch Sept. 2, 2013, 7:58 a.m. UTC 
Hello All,

The attached patch (for trunk svn rev 202160) 
to gcc/gengtype.c permits files named *.cc (by adding another rule) 
to be passed to gengtype and gives a slightly meaningful fatal 
error message whan an unrecogized file name (e.g. *.cpp or something 
even more wild) is passed to gengtype. 
FWIW, this patch is imported from melt-branch svn rev 202160.


#### gcc/ChangeLog entry 

2013-09-02  Basile Starynkevitch  <basile@starynkevitch.net>

	* gengtype.c (file_rules): Added rule for *.cc files.
	(get_output_file_with_visibility): Give fatal message when no
	rules found.

###

Ok for trunk?

Cheers

Comments

Basile Starynkevitch Sept. 16, 2013, 8:19 a.m. UTC | #1 
Hello all,

I'm pinging the patch (of september 2nd) on 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00036.html


#### gcc/ChangeLog entry 

2013-09-16  Basile Starynkevitch  <basile@starynkevitch.net>

	* gengtype.c (file_rules): Added rule for *.cc files.
	(get_output_file_with_visibility): Give fatal message when no
	rules found.

###

Regards
Diego Novillo Sept. 20, 2013, 1:53 p.m. UTC | #2 
On 2013-09-16 04:19 , Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm pinging the patch (of september 2nd) on
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00036.html
>
>
> #### gcc/ChangeLog entry
>
> 2013-09-16  Basile Starynkevitch  <basile@starynkevitch.net>
>
> 	* gengtype.c (file_rules): Added rule for *.cc files.
> 	(get_output_file_with_visibility): Give fatal message when no
> 	rules found.

OK.


Diego.
Basile Starynkevitch Sept. 20, 2013, 3:52 p.m. UTC | #3 
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:53:10AM -0400, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On 2013-09-16 04:19 , Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I'm pinging the patch (of september 2nd) on
> >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00036.html
> >
> >
> >#### gcc/ChangeLog entry
> >
> >2013-09-16  Basile Starynkevitch  <basile@starynkevitch.net>
> >
> >	* gengtype.c (file_rules): Added rule for *.cc files.
> >	(get_output_file_with_visibility): Give fatal message when no
> >	rules found.
> 
> OK.

Thanks for the review and the approval. I just commited  revision 202782.

BTW, I believe this patch should be back ported, at least to next GCC 4.8.2
(and perhaps even to 4.7). What do you think?

Cheers
Jakub Jelinek Sept. 20, 2013, 3:56 p.m. UTC | #4 
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 05:52:38PM +0200, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:53:10AM -0400, Diego Novillo wrote:
> > On 2013-09-16 04:19 , Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> > >Hello all,
> > >
> > >I'm pinging the patch (of september 2nd) on
> > >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00036.html
> > >
> > >
> > >#### gcc/ChangeLog entry
> > >
> > >2013-09-16  Basile Starynkevitch  <basile@starynkevitch.net>
> > >
> > >	* gengtype.c (file_rules): Added rule for *.cc files.
> > >	(get_output_file_with_visibility): Give fatal message when no
> > >	rules found.
> > 
> > OK.
> 
> Thanks for the review and the approval. I just commited  revision 202782.
> 
> BTW, I believe this patch should be back ported, at least to next GCC 4.8.2
> (and perhaps even to 4.7). What do you think?

Why?  There are no *.cc files in 4.8.x and I don't see why this patch would
be desirable for the release branches.

	Jakub
Basile Starynkevitch Sept. 24, 2013, 11:04 a.m. UTC | #5 
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 05:56:22PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 05:52:38PM +0200, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:53:10AM -0400, Diego Novillo wrote:
> > > On 2013-09-16 04:19 , Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> > > >Hello all,
> > > >
> > > >I'm pinging the patch (of september 2nd) on
> > > >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00036.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >#### gcc/ChangeLog entry
> > > >
> > > >2013-09-16  Basile Starynkevitch  <basile@starynkevitch.net>
> > > >
> > > >	* gengtype.c (file_rules): Added rule for *.cc files.
> > > >	(get_output_file_with_visibility): Give fatal message when no
> > > >	rules found.
> > > 
> > > OK.
> > 
> > Thanks for the review and the approval. I just commited  revision 202782.
> > 
> > BTW, I believe this patch should be back ported, at least to next GCC 4.8.2
> > (and perhaps even to 4.7). What do you think?
> 
> Why?  There are no *.cc files in 4.8.x and I don't see why this patch would
> be desirable for the release branches.


Because 4.8 (and even 4.7) plugins may have .cc files and they are running 
(when they have GTY-ed data) gengtype to be built.

In general, I still do find that naming .c a C++ file is very confusing 
(especially for newbies). BTW, some other compilers don't like that 
(in particular Clang issues a warning when compiling a C++ file named .c, 
so Clang issues a lot of warnings when compiling GCC)


Of course, one might say that no recent C++ formal standard states that 
C++ source files should have a .cc or .cxx or .cpp or .C extension 
(but I am not sure of this) but this is a common practice since several 
decades (probably since the origin of C++).

INSHO plugins for GCC don't have any reasons to follow the GCC 
(obscure and undocumented) bad & crazy habit of naming .c a C++ file 
(that a plain C compiler won't even compile!).

So I believe that the plugin infrastructure should accept -and even mandates, 
or at least strongly advise- that plugin files should be named *.cc (or *.cpp).

And since GCC 4.8 (and even 4.7) requires a C++ compiler, their plugins 
should generally be coded in C++ not in C. And such a plugin C++ source 
file has absolutely no reason to be named *.c (the reason why GCC still 
have *.c file is some obscure version controlling reason; one might be 
tempted to think that if the version control wants *.c files for C++ source, 
that version control is broken and should be replaced by some more 
fancy thing...)


Not accepting plugin source files named .cc for C++ source code is IMHO a bug.
And some plugins (those with GTY-ed data) do use gengtype during their build.

Cheers.
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Patch

Index: gcc/gengtype.c
===================================================================
--- gcc/gengtype.c	(revision 202160)
+++ gcc/gengtype.c	(working copy)
@@ -2004,14 +2004,21 @@ 
     REG_EXTENDED, NULL_REGEX,
     "gt-objc-objc-map.h", "objc/objc-map.c", NULL_FRULACT },
 
-  /* General cases.  For header *.h and source *.c files, we need
-   * special actions to handle the language.  */
+  /* General cases.  For header *.h and source *.c or *.cc files, we
+   * need special actions to handle the language.  */
 
   /* Source *.c files are using get_file_gtfilename to compute their
      output_name and get_file_basename to compute their for_name
      through the source_dot_c_frul action.  */
   { DIR_PREFIX_REGEX "([[:alnum:]_-]*)\\.c$",
     REG_EXTENDED, NULL_REGEX, "gt-$3.h", "$3.c", source_dot_c_frul},
+
+  /* Source *.cc files are using get_file_gtfilename to compute their
+     output_name and get_file_basename to compute their for_name
+     through the source_dot_c_frul action.  */
+  { DIR_PREFIX_REGEX "([[:alnum:]_-]*)\\.cc$",
+    REG_EXTENDED, NULL_REGEX, "gt-$3.h", "$3.cc", source_dot_c_frul},
+
   /* Common header files get "gtype-desc.c" as their output_name,
    * while language specific header files are handled specially.  So
    * we need the header_dot_h_frul action.  */
@@ -2269,9 +2276,9 @@ 
   }
   if (!output_name || !for_name)
     {
-      /* This is impossible, and could only happen if the files_rules is
-	 incomplete or buggy.  */
-      gcc_unreachable ();
+      /* This should not be possible, and could only happen if the
+	 files_rules is incomplete or buggy.  */
+      fatal ("failed to compute output name for %s", inpfname);
     }
 
   /* Look through to see if we've ever seen this output filename