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Re: [RFC] type safe trees
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:49:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] type safe trees
- References: <10406232248.AA22111@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner wrote:-
> We really need front-end specific data structures, lowered to a common
> representation (I suspect gimple). It would even solve the current
> Kenner thread, though he may disagree.
>
> I don't see how it would "solve" the current thread since that's what
> the Ada front end already does! It has a quite complex internal
> representation that's basically a very heavily annotated (well over
> 100 fields and flags) parse tree.
Clearly it's not what is happening, as people are complaining about
the effect of your changes on data structure size for the C++ frontend.
Neil.