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Flesh out the dragonegg section.
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>
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<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is a port of llvm-gcc to
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gcc-4.5. Unlike llvm-gcc, which makes many intrusive changes to the underlying
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gcc-4.2 code, dragonegg in theory does not require any gcc-4.5 modifications
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whatsoever (currently one small patch is needed). This is thanks to the new
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<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins">gcc plugin architecture</a>, which
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makes it possible to modify the behaviour of gcc at runtime by loading a plugin,
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which is nothing more than a dynamic library which conforms to the gcc plugin
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interface. DragonEgg is a gcc plugin that causes the LLVM optimizers to be run
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instead of the gcc optimizers, and the LLVM code generators instead of the gcc
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code generators, just like llvm-gcc. To use it, you add
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"-fplugin=path/dragonegg.so" to the gcc-4.5 command line, and gcc-4.5 magically
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becomes llvm-gcc-4.5!
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gcc-4.5. Unlike llvm-gcc, dragonegg in theory does not require any gcc-4.5
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modifications whatsoever (currently one small patch is needed) thanks to the
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new <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins">gcc plugin architecture</a>.
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DragonEgg is a gcc plugin that makes gcc-4.5 use the LLVM optimizers and code
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generators instead of gcc's, just like with llvm-gcc.
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</p>
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<p>
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DragonEgg is still a work in progress. Currently C works very well, while C++,
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Ada and Fortran work fairly well. All other languages either don't work at all,
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or only work poorly. For the moment only the x86-32 and x86-64 targets are
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supported, and only on linux and darwin (darwin needs an additional gcc patch).
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DragonEgg is still a work in progress, but it is able to compile a lot of code,
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for example all of gcc, LLVM and clang. Currently Ada, C, C++ and Fortran work
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well, while all other languages either don't work at all or only work poorly.
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For the moment only the x86-32 and x86-64 targets are supported, and only on
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linux and darwin (darwin may need additional gcc patches).
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</p>
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<p>
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2.8 status here.
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The 2.8 release has the following notable changes:
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<ul>
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<li>The plugin loads faster due to exporting fewer symbols.</li>
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<li>Additional vector operations such as addps256 are now supported.</li>
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<li>Ada global variables with no initial value are no longer zero initialized,
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resulting in better optimization.</li>
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<li>The '-fplugin-arg-dragonegg-enable-gcc-optzns' flag now runs all gcc
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optimizers, rather than just a handful.</li>
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<li>Fortran programs using common variables now link correctly.</li>
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<li>GNU OMP constructs no longer crash the compiler.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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