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Re: C constant expressions proposals


On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:21:00PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> My suggestion is to just permit any expression of the form above and 
> document that the assembler gets to say whether it's valid or not.  

Not possible.  C++ needs to handle *all* expressions.  If the
assembler can't handle it, then the compiler needs to generate
a constructor to do the job.

> Alternatively, make a target hook that can look at trees.

Reasonable.


r~


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