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Re: PING: PATCH: Do not clear the DECL_BIT_FIELD flag (prelude to ObjC fix)
- From: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:36:23 -0700
- Subject: Re: PING: PATCH: Do not clear the DECL_BIT_FIELD flag (prelude to ObjC fix)
On Tuesday, Aug 13, 2002, at 18:30 US/Pacific, Richard Kenner wrote:
This looks like it will cause performance problems to me. Isn't there
some other way of keeping the ObjC front end from messing up?
What kind of performance problems were you thinking of?
I suppose the ObjC front-end could be taught to keep separate
copies of instance variables for super classes lest they get
side-effected too often, but that is terribly kludgey.
--Zem
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