The difficulty of accessing GCC's IR is partially deliberate - Stallman didn't want any convenient way for non-free software to take advantage of GCCs internals.
It would seriously surprise me if Stallman had much of anything to do with the current GCC IR, which is from 2003. But maybe I'm mistaken.
Do you have any reference for this intentional obfuscation in any version? It'd be disappointing even if it were the case in earlier versions, but conceivable, I guess...
Do you have any reference for this intentional obfuscation in any version? It'd be disappointing even if it were the case in earlier versions, but conceivable, I guess...