Re: CUMULATIVE_ARGS in hooks (Was: RFC: semi-automatic hookization)

[Joern Rennecke <amylaar at spamcop dot net>]

Quoting Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>:

> I am admittedly a C++ newbie; the first thing I thought of was:
>
> class gcc::cumulative_args {
>   virtual void advance (...) = 0;
>   virtual rtx arg (...) = 0;
>   virtual rtx incoming_arg (...) { return this->arg (...); };
>   virtual int arg_partial_bytes (...) = 0;
>   // ...and so on for many of the hooks that take CUMULATIVE_ARGS *
>   // possibly with default implementations instead of pure virtual
>   // functions.
> };

Trying to put a target-derived object of that into struct rtl_data would
be nonsentical.  You might store a pointer, of course.
But at any rate, the member function implementations would not be part
of the globally-visible target vector.  They are in a smaller vector, and
only the pieces of the middle end that deal with argument passing get to
see them.
Does that mean you acknowledge that we shouldn't have CUMULATIVE_ARGS
taking hooks in the global target vector?