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Re: remove a couple less-than-useful things from cpp
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at wolery dot cumb dot org>
- Subject: Re: remove a couple less-than-useful things from cpp
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 02 May 2000 12:41:15 -0700
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000502085904.A15403@wolery.cumb.org>
>>>>> Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org> writes:
> This patch eliminates two not-very-useful concepts: the special token
> for popping off a buffer, and the 'cleanup' function called when that
> happens. Both probably seemed like a good idea at the time but have
> proved to be unnecessary complexity.
Um, as described in the comments, the C++ frontend USE_CPPLIB code uses
manual_pop to regurgitate member function bodies. It needs to know when
we're dealing with such a buffer so that it can save and restore lookahead
tokens properly. Do you have an alternate solution to that problem?
Jason