GCC GENERIC is an intermediate representation language created in 2003.

The purpose of GENERIC is simply to provide a language-independent way of representing an entire function in trees. To this end, it was necessary to add a few new tree codes to the backend, but most everything was already there. If you can say it with the codes in gcc/tree.def, it’s GENERIC.

• GCC GENERIC first developed in Red Hat, Inc
• Read more about GCC GENERIC on the web: 1.

ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/summit/2003/GENERIC%20and%20GIMPLE.pdf 1.