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Re: -fvtable-gc
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:
Richard> What is METHOD_CALL_EXPR if not for calling methods? If I have
> That's a good question -- I never even heard of that before.
I don't think it's ever been used in the tree structure; I think it was
always just a placeholder for Michael's delegation extension whereby you
could change how method calls worked by overloading the "method call
operator". I don't remember details; I tore that code out long, long ago.
I'm not sure why I didn't remove METHOD_CALL_EXPR entirely.
Richard> I get an OFFSET_REF, which isn't actually documented anywhere,
Richard> and I can't figure out what it means exactly.
> It's quasi-documented in cp/cp-tree.def. I have never liked this
> construct much; it doesn't map directly to anything in the language
> itself, for example.
Agreed; it is too overloaded. It can mean either Class::Member or
Object.*PtrMem.
Jason