<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Plugins description - GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Plugins.html#Plugins" title="Plugins"> <link rel="prev" href="Plugins-GC.html#Plugins-GC" title="Plugins GC"> <link rel="next" href="Plugins-attr.html#Plugins-attr" title="Plugins attr"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Plugins-description"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Plugins-attr.html#Plugins-attr">Plugins attr</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Plugins-GC.html#Plugins-GC">Plugins GC</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Plugins.html#Plugins">Plugins</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">23.5 Giving information about a plugin</h3> <p>A plugin should give some information to the user about itself. This uses the following structure: <pre class="smallexample"> struct plugin_info { const char *version; const char *help; }; </pre> <p>Such a structure is passed as the <code>user_data</code> by the plugin's init routine using <code>register_callback</code> with the <code>PLUGIN_INFO</code> pseudo-event and a null callback. </body></html>