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Re: problem with your GIMPLE_FORMAL_TEMP change


On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:28:02PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Why clear DECL_GIMPLE_FORMAL_TEMP_P when leaving a context?  Not doing
> that would also fix this, but I'm not sure what it might break since I
> don't understand why its being cleared.

Fear of some arbitrary unnamed transformation that alters the
lifetime of the temporary so as to invalidate the assumptions
of DECL_GIMPLE_FORMAL_TEMP_P when calling back into the 
gimplifier later.

It just Seems Safer.



r~


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