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Re: Where can I find "sizeof" implementation in front end

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
To: bjzheng at ict dot ac dot cn
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:43:15 +0200
Subject: Re: Where can I find "sizeof" implementation in front end
References: <1637.221.221.163.246.1182267287.squirrel@webmail.ict.ac.cn>

bjzheng@ict.ac.cn wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> I am reading codes of gcc front end. But I can not find the implementation
> of "sizeof". How does gcc front end calculate size of UNION and STRUCT?
> Where is the codes for these work. Can anybody give me some advices? Thank
> you so much !

The code is heavily target dependent.  More or less, the whole of
stor-layout.c is devoted to this task.

Paolo

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- Where can I find "sizeof" implementation in front end
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