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CALL_EXPR representation changes coming; need patch reviewer(s)
- From: Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>
- To: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: Brooks Moses <brooks dot moses at codesourcery dot com>, Lee Millward <lee dot millward at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:27:06 -0500
- Subject: CALL_EXPR representation changes coming; need patch reviewer(s)
Last summer I made changes on the LTO branch to the representation of
CALL_EXPRs, to store the arguments in the expr itself (making it of variable
size) rather than in an attached TREE_LIST. The primary purpose of the change
was memory savings, but introducing new accessor macros and constructor
functions also had the side-effect of simplifying a lot of code that builds and
manipulates call expressions.
Recently, Brooks Moses, Lee Millward, and I have been making a push to get these
changes merged to mainline; we're getting close to finishing testing and will
probably have a patch ready by the beginning of next week. Can we get a
volunteer or volunteers to commit to reviewing the patch? It's going to be a
very large patch since this change affects many parts of the compiler; and
getting it reviewed in a timely manner will help prevent the changes from
getting bit-rotted again before they can be committed.
Once the patch is approved, we will probably need to ask for a check-in window
for the final merge and commit, as described in
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-09/msg00454.html
Thanks,
-Sandra