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Re: [PATCH] PR30391: GIMPLE_MODIFY_STMT vs. middle-end
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:37:10PM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 05:08, Roger Sayle wrote:
> > For example, during RTL expansion we may need to
> > temporarily create assignments to be expanded, and there's no strong
> > reason for these to use the same doubly linked data structure that we use
> > for representing functions.
>
> Well, one could argue that expand should *only* see GIPMLE, so that
> the expand_* routines can be simplified. So maybe we should see no
> MODIFY_EXPRs during RTL expandsion, but only GIMPLE_MODIFY_STMTs...
Correct, that was the original intent.