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Re: [patch] for PR 18040
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, dberlin at dberlin dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:35:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] for PR 18040
- References: <10410172054.AA01431@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <87zn2lrr8y.fsf@codesourcery.com>
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 02:04:13PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> What he's saying is that
>
> <COMPONENT_REF type struct field>
>
> (and all other reference nodes) would implicitly convert FIELD to TYPE,
> if that's not FIELD's intrinsic type. I think this makes a hell of a
> lot of sense, personally.
I think this is an exceptionally bad idea.
r~