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Re: [PATCH] Canonical types (1/3)
- From: "Steven Bosscher" <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: "Doug Gregor" <doug dot gregor at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "GCC Patches" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:38:45 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Canonical types (1/3)
- References: <24b520d20611280755x5117377fh7e4e1344575fb17d@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/28/06, Doug Gregor <doug.gregor@gmail.com> wrote:
* tree.h (TYPE_CANONICAL): New.
(TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY): New.
(struct tree_type): Added structural_equality, unused_bits,
canonical fields.
If I understand your patches correctly, this stuff is only needed for
the C-family languages. So why steal two pointers on the generic
struct tree_type? Are you planning to make all front ends use these
fields, or is it just additional bloat for e.g. Ada, Fortran, Java?
;-)
Gr.
Steven