Re: [PATCH] Store type in fieldoff_s, not FIELD_DECL

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:07 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Diego Novillo wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:39:46PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > 
> > > This enables us to sft fields without a FIELD_DECL in future
> > > (aka array elements).  Two parts, actually, to be applied on
> > > top of each other.
> > > 
> > > Bootstrapped and tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.
> > > 
> > > Ok for mainline?
> > > 
> > Well, we are in stage3 now.  Are you hoping to fix anything with
> > this?  It's not absolutely clear to me that we won't need the
> > FIELD_DECL in the new alias work planned for 4.2.
> 
> Other than missed optimizations?  No.  If Andrews patch to 
> tree_merge_blocks gets in we might enable saliasing for structs
> which contain arrays -- this is the most I'm hoping to get in for 4.1.
> 

Given how much pain the SFT's caused when they first went in, i'd really
think you should wait for 4.2.


> Patch queued elsewhere.  Trying to extract the real fixes now.
> 
> Richard.