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Re: Question on gimplify.c:create_tmp_var

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 10:16:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Question on gimplify.c:create_tmp_var
References: <10406060449.AA27889@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <200406061139.21077.stevenb@suse.de>

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Sunday 06 June 2004 06:49, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > Why does it disallow ARRAY_TYPE?
> 
> Because the gimplifier only need scalar temporaries?  :-)

Not quite, since we do sometimes create struct temporaries, but
certainly there are no conditions under which C or C++ would need
an array temporary.  

Under what conditions are you finding that you needed an array
type temporary?  I'll go out on a limb and say it's probably a
front-end bug.

r~

References:
- Question on gimplify.c:create_tmp_var
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: Question on gimplify.c:create_tmp_var
  - From: Steven Bosscher

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