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Re: Canonical type nodes, or, comptypes considered harmful

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Doug Gregor <doug dot gregor at gmail dot com>
Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:21:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Canonical type nodes, or, comptypes considered harmful
References: <1A16D953-52B9-45E4-9FFE-741C5A9EF2AF@cs.indiana.edu> <10611071958.AA29579@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <24b520d20611071218m2583a9cdkc202034e3c309c93@mail.gmail.com>

Doug Gregor wrote:

These are different types. For instance, "int" and "long" are distinct
types in C++, even if both map onto 32-bit integers.


And in Ada, you can have any number of distinct integer types
with identical representations.

References:
- Canonical type nodes, or, comptypes considered harmful
  - From: Douglas Gregor
- Re: Canonical type nodes, or, comptypes considered harmful
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: Re: Canonical type nodes, or, comptypes considered harmful
  - From: Doug Gregor

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