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Re: Machine attributes and language attributes
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Machine attributes and language attributes
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 20:52:43 -0700
- cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
--On Tuesday, July 03, 2001 08:40:21 PM +0100 "Joseph S. Myers"
<jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>
>> If you are saying that the target code provides a table of finite size,
>> that'd be OK with me, but you shouldn't code in any arbitrary
>> restriction. That would not only potentially impede future work, it
>> would also be against the GNU coding standards:
>
> Yes, a table of finite size initialized by the target, with a pointer to
> it in the target structure, but without arbitrary limits; the common code
> would then simply look through three tables (common attributes, language
> ones, machine ones), each having either a size stored or an end marker.
Your plan is a good one.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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