[GCC-XML] Function bodies

[Brad King]

William Rivet wrote:
> My intended use of function-body-dumping(as well as existing data 
> dumping) is for data coupling metrics. I don't need to even know what 
> the operations are, just if a given variable was read or written or 
> modified. The rest of the analysis wold be outside of gccxml. Certainly 
> this would not be useful in producing linkable code.
> 
> I'm still unclear of the concern here, that is, why producing 
> "executable xml" should be treated different than producing x86 ELF 
> object code. and it sounds like it was made clear that gccxml would be 
> challenged if it went "too far". If I understand Daniel's  meaning, he 
> and I might be looking for similar incomplete information?

It's not that the xml output might be "executable", it's that it might 
be such a detailed representation of the data structures in GCC itself 
that using it could be considered "linking" to the GPLed GCC code. 
Currently this is far from true but adding function bodies makes it closer.

-Brad