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Re: no_new_pseudos
Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> writes:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Am I the only one who completely fails to see the point of the
> > spelling change? I realize that you have said you find negative
> > predicates confusing - I don't, but I do find changing predicates
> > confusing. I applaud cleaning up the definition and/or replacing it
> > with a macro, and I'd applaud adding some extra internals
> > documentation about it, but I think the fact that it's been called
> > no_new_pseudos for so long suggests that we should just leave it
> > called that if we want a predicate that means the same thing.
>
> I agree. This is unnecessary churn that'll do nothing except make it
> harder to move patches between branches.
I disagree, as I've stated several times.
And we're only talking about 154 occurrences here across the whole
compiler, and this is not code which changes frequently. I believe we
can tolerate that amount of churn.
Ian