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Re: [RFA] Integrated hashtables take 2
>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@Stanford.EDU> writes:
Zack> We want to do this anyway, because it'll save two pointers
Zack> per structure (as far as I can tell, both TREE_CHAIN and
Zack> TREE_TYPE are unused for IDENTIFIER_NODEs) and possibly we
Zack> could cram the few bits of the flag word in somewhere else,
Zack> saving another four bytes...
See identifier_type_value in cc1plus.
Anyhow, if we want to do this, we should do it first.
Zack> If we can do that in the near future, then I don't think
Zack> there's a problem with a temporary layering violation.
Temporary is such a funny word. :-)
We still have those "fix this before GCC 1.3" comments after all.
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