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Re: [patch] for PR17474
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:01, Zdenek Dvorak wrote:
> this handles just the cases when the base variable does not have
> a type memory tag; in such case the variable itself acts as an
> operand in VUSES/VDEFS (well -- I guess; it seems to work this way...)
>
If the base variable didn't have an alias tag already, something is
_very_ wrong. The base variable is dereferenced, so it must have a tag
(either type or name). If that's not the case, the only graceful thing
you can do here is ICE.
> Where, concretely? I am fairly sure that the only place where this
> magic was used was in rewrite_address_base.
>
My mistake. I was looking at the deleted portion in your patch. Never
mind.
Diego.