Re: Differences in c and c++ anon typedefs

[Brendon Costa <brendon at christian dot net>]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> C++ defines a notion of "class name for linkage purpose" -- that is a
> notion used to define the One Definition Rule. 
> In general the TYPE_NAME of TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT is the class name for
> linkage purpose.  
> The behaviour you reported on implements the rule 7.1.3/5:
> 
>    If the typedef declaration defines an unnamed class (or enum), the
>    first typedef-name declared by the declaration
>    to be that class type (or enum type) is used to denote the class type
>    (or enum type) for linkage purposes only (3.5).
> 

As a result of C types not having a "class name for linkage purposes", I
am finding it difficult to define a "normalised" string for
FUNCTION_TYPE nodes that represents the type in the same way across
C/C++ for compatible function types.

Basically I need to save to a file a string that represents a
FUNCTION_TYPE node that can be compared against other strings that also
represent FUNCTION_TYPE nodes and if the two functions are compatible as
would be returned by: function_types_compatible_p() then the strings
should be equal.

In C++ I create the string by using TYPE_MAIN_VARIENT for the various
parts of the FUNCTION_TYPE node (return type, and parameters). Does
anyone have ANY idea of a way I could do something similar in the C
front end?

Thanks,
Brendon.