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Re: Patch to allow Ada to work with tree-ssa
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:30:41 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch to allow Ada to work with tree-ssa
- References: <10406222108.AA11261@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:08:04PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I don't follow. TYPE_SIZE_UNIT was added because TYPE_SIZE was too large
> to represent in an integer. Doing arithmetic in units *larger* than
> bytes doesn't have that problem.
No. I added it because divide-by-8 kept appearing in Fortran code
in response to arrays of variable dimension.
It had a nice side effect that it allowed us to finally represent
objects the size of the address space, but that was not the original
reason.
r~