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Re: [patch] 19/n: trans-mem: compiler tree/gimple stuff


On 11/06/2011 02:09 AM, Richard Guenther wrote:
>> > Richi, do you have any particular issue with the attribs.c change?  Does
>> > this context resolve any questions you may have had?
> ... no, it just looked weird without seeing a use.  Now, target specific
> attributes on a non-target specific builtin are of course weird.  Which
> explains the patch, sort-of.  Still feels like a hack, but I can't think
> of anything better, other than a target hook that we'd call for
> all middle-end builtins we generate and which would allow target specific
> modifications.  No idea if that would be better.  I'll defer to rth for this.

I tried 2 or 3 ideas on the way to this hack.

I guess the idea of a target hook that gets called for *all* builtins
has a better chance of being useful for something else in the future.

I'll work up something and see if it looks any cleaner...


r~


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