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Re: Alias sets
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: Alias sets
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 11:33:57 +0200
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <20000603224726P.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Two things went wrong with mail in the last few days that have made
> me less useful than I should have been with respect to the aliasing
> stuff:
>
> - Somehow, I was unsubscribed to gcc-patches around the beginning
> of last week. That's where a lot of the interesting traffic was.
> I am now resubscribed.
Ah, that certainly explains a lot of the haphazard question-and-answer
sessions I've seen on this topic ...
> and the accompanying front-end patches. I don't think language
> implementors should be saddled with alias sets at all if they don't
> want to deal. It should be possible to right a correct front-end
> without providing this function; you just won't get as good
> optimization. Do you agree?
Yes, please. Although I now understand how alias sets could be useful
for the Fortran Frontend (everything in a different alias set except for
those items in EQUIVALENCE lists), I do not have the time - nor the
expertise - to update the frontend.
Thanks for this explanation.
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