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Re: [lto] Streaming out language-specific DECL/TYPEs
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 20:37, Kenneth Zadeck <zadeck@naturalbridge.com> wrote:
>
> > the problem with making this a langhook is that there is no "there-there" in
> > that on the serialize in side, you would have to recreate the c++ front end
> > code that expects this tree code. (if there is no such code, then this tree
> > code could/should have been removed before you got there. On the other
> > hand, if this tree code needs to be there, then copying the c++ front end
> > code that processes it later is a bad road to go down.
>
> Yes, you are right. In this case, the code sneaks in through a
> RECORD_TYPE which contains the TEMPLATE_DECL in its maxval field,
> because that's where C++ stores TYPE_METHODS.
>
> I don't really see any need for us to handle TEMPLATE_DECL outside of
> the C++ FE, so I'm tempted to just totally ignore language codes when
> we see them in output_tree(). I will go with this for now. On the
> way in, we simply ignore the field.
Sure if it works, we should be lowering the types during gimplification
so we don't need to store all this in memory...
But C++ FE still use its local data later in stuff like thunks, but we
will need to cgraphize them anyway.
Honza
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>
> Diego.