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Re: [lto] PATCH: Add support for referencing types from function bodies

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 18:55 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> You could add a bit on VAR_DECLs which says to apply -fmerge-all-constants 
> semantics to that VAR_DECL.  (And then -fmerge-all-constants might apply 
> that bit to all constant variables.)

Then why have CONST_DECLs in the first place?  I don't see why the
front-ends would need a CONST_DECL either.  Yes for enums you cannot
take the address of their name, then why not make CONST_DECLs local to
the C/C++ front-ends instead?

-- Pinski
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