Re: [PATCH]: Commence binfo extraction

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>]

> Nathan Sidwell writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > this patch separates binfos from TREE_VECs.  As a stepping stone to turning
>  > a binfo into not-a-tree I've turned it into a new tree node.  I've separated
>  > the uses of tree_type.binfo into those that are as binfos, and those that
>  > are other.  Note the following points,
>  > *) The only two languages that appear to be using binfos are C++ and Java.

Anything that simplifies BINFOs is quite welcome by me - I've
never understood them completely or why we need so many of them
for a given inheritance hierarchy. In any case, I trust that
you'd be updating the relevant documentation pieces also:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Classes.html


Andrew Haley writes:
> This looks OK, but we're trying to track down a recent regression in
> Java.  Would it be a problem to delay for a day or two?

If Andrew is referring to the recent EH regressions in Java,
then rth's patch seems to have solved them on
i686-pc-linux-gnu at least.

My 2p.

Ranjit.

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