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Re: Patch: stab info for const fields
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
- Date: 01 Nov 2002 01:21:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: Patch: stab info for const fields
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <10211010005.AA03253@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
| If you look again at the bit you snipped, the implementation I
| suggested should be totally language-independent (in the
| language-independent parts of the compiler).
|
| Yes, the *implementation* is, but the *definition* is not, so that when
| people are looking at a tree, they can't know whether it's valid or not
| without knowlege of the language in question and I think that's a bad idea.
I strongly agree with Kenner on this point. There ought to be a
precise definition. I support option (1) and won't oppose to (2).
But (3) or (3a) aren't workable, IMO.
-- Gaby