Re: Allow non-wi <op> wi

[Richard Sandiford <richard dot sandiford at linaro dot org>]

Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Richard Sandiford
> <richard.sandiford@linaro.org> wrote:
>> This patch uses global rather than member operators for wide-int.h,
>> so that the first operand can be a non-wide-int type.
>
> Not sure why we had the in-class ones.  If we had some good arguments
> they'd still stand.  Do you remember?

Not really, sorry.  This might not have been discussed specifically.
It looks like Kenny and Mike's initial commit to the wide-int branch
had member operators, so it could just have been carried over by
default.  And using member operators in the initial commit might have
been influenced by double_int (which has them too), since at that time
wide_int was very much a direct replacement for double_int.

Thanks,
Richard