Re: [PATCH] Fix PR C++/3172, wrongly turning reference of a vector type into pointer to a vector type

["Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On 4/29/07, Andrew_Pinski@playstation.sony.com
<Andrew_Pinski@playstation.sony.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   The problem here is that when reconstruct_complex_type is reconstructing
> a reference type, it just builds a pointer type which is incorrect.  And
> this causes using the vector_size attribute on references to become
> pointers.  This patch fixes the problem by splitting the two cases of
> POINTER_TYPE_P into their own code.  Also this changes so that we rebuild
> the pointer/reference with the same mode as the old one and the
> pointer/reference which could have cause issues for ia64-hpux and s390x.
>
> OK?  Bootstrapped and tested on powerpc64-linux-gnu with no regressions,
> also built and tested for spu-elf with no regressions.

This is ok.  (I suppose this is not a regression, right?)

Thanks,
Richard.

> Note to the people who are doing the rvalue references, you should check
> how rvalue references interact with vector types.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Pinski
>
> ChangeLog:
>         * tree.c (reconstruct_complex_type): Reconstruct a reference
> correctly.
>         Also use the same mode for the pointer as the old pointer type.
>
>         * g++.dg/ext/vector7.C: New testcase.