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Hi, > I've found that often I want to save some kind of information in a > variable and then use that variable when constructing the command > line. This is not possible without hooks, but hooks are limited in > what they can do (they can only do simple string substitution). Would it help if it was allowed to pass arguments to hooks? So that you could write, for example:

...right thing for several use cases. Patrick -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3250 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20081117/6373e335/attachment.bin>

Thanks for the reply! > The plan now is to make this functionality easier to use, so you'll be able to > just say: > > llvmc2 --load MyPlugin.td MyFile.cpp > > and have llvmc2 build and load MyPlugin.td behind the scenes. That sounds like a good idea. Part of the reason I suggested making the system less dependent on TableGen is that in the process of developing a