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Re: RFC/RFHelp: c-decl.c rewrite - almost but not quite
On Mar 17, 2004, at 6:22 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
How's that?
I am now seriously enlightened. Thanks for writing all that down -- I
now realize part of the reason I didn't understand the code was that I
wasn't aware of some of the details of C's semantics -- specifically
the different namespaces for tags, labels, and names.
You've also made me realize that a potential optimization I noticed
might not be so bright. When talking with Geoff Keating and Matt
Austern about the stree work, we were looking at the cxx_binding
structure. I asked why there was both a field for name and type, and
Geoff explained how that handled the "struct stat" problem from C code.
I'd suggested at the time that most cxx_bindings would only have one
field filled at a time, so figuring out an alternative scheme (such as
placing the type in a new cxx_binding chained off the old one) could
save us about 1% on gcc's memory use. Considering that you've done the
reverse (going from a chained representation to a structure containing
all fields defined at the same level), maybe changing cxx_binding isn't
an improvement.
Robert