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Re: C/C++ FEs: Do we really need three char_type_nodes?

Mark Mitchell wrote: 
Is that desirable?  Type-based alias analysis should be able to take
advantage of the difference between them; a "char **" and a "signed char
**" cannot point at the same thing, for example.

They can. In C++, a char* (or unsigned char*) can alias anything, and any signed/unsigned type can alias the other signage.

Jason

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