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Re: [C PATCH]: tidy some code
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:25:00 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: [C PATCH]: tidy some code
On 26 Nov 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> | if (code == UNION_TYPE)
> | ! error ("redefinition of `union %s'", IDENTIFIER_POINTER (name));
> | else
> | ! error ("redefinition of `struct %s'", IDENTIFIER_POINTER (name));
>
> Hi Nathan, I'm not clear about why this conditional is done here.
> I think the diagnostic machinary is able to figure out how to print
> name with the appropriate class-key. What else am I missing?
That the code was made this way by Paolo Bonzini to allow for different
gender of struct/union/enum in some languages
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-06/msg01330.html> (c-decl.c
revision 1.260).
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk