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Re: Recent removal of the 'aux' field in tree_common
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:50:23 -0800
- Subject: Re: Recent removal of the 'aux' field in tree_common
- References: <20020228160600.GA5835@tornado.toronto.redhat.com> <20020228175131.GA19001@codesourcery.com> <1014919263.2945.25.camel@shadowfax>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:01:00PM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 12:51, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > The primary reason I took it out was that it's unused on the mainline,
> > and we didn't want to waste the memory in 3.1.
> >
> Agreed.
>
> > I would be open to putting it back when ast-branch is merged back in,
> > but I would prefer to find a way which does not increase the size of
> > every tree node.
> >
> Sounds sensible. What about the idea I mentioned in my original
> message? We need to have analysis/optimization information in some
> trees (particularly _DECL and _STMT trees). Would adding fields to only
> those trees be OK?
Well, keep Geoff's concerns about PCH in mind, but in principle I have
no problem with that.
zw