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Re: Rename tree_ann to tree_ann_t
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>,Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:35:18 +0200
- Subject: Re: Rename tree_ann to tree_ann_t
- Organization: SUSE Labs
- References: <200405161232.11074.stevenb@suse.de> <1084825230.3630.121.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Monday 17 May 2004 22:20, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 06:32, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > But the generic tree_ann is a type name, where the other kinds
> > of tree annotations have a *_t suffix. This patch renames
> > tree_ann to tree_ann_t, and adds a few functions to create and
> > access the generic tree_ann_t annotations.
>
> Why do you want to create a generic tree_ann_t object? What annotations
> are you trying to add? It'd be better to sub-type them like we did for
> the others.
We attach them to expressions (in this context, anything that can
be the rhs of a MODIFY_EXPR) to get the value representative for
that expression without looking it up in a hash table.
Gr.
Steven