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Re: [PATCH] Fix PR27529, a step towards fixing PR27039
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
Andrew> I can see the logic of this. I'd still want fold to see through
Andrew> CHECKED_CONVERT_EXPR to the extent that
Andrew> fold (build (CHECKED_CONVERT_EXPR, t, exp)) would return exp if it
Andrew> were already of type t.
Andrew> I would rather not be performing such major surgery to the Java
Andrew> language front-end at this point in the development cycle. It seems
Andrew> like a reasonable thing do do in Stage 1, though.
I think when we merge the ecj branch, we won't need this special case
at all -- we won't be using parse.y and in a .class file all
checkcasts are explicit.
If you file a PR for this and link it to the ecj tracking PR, I can
deal with the cleanup at merge time.
Tom