[fortran-dev] constructor work, part I; updated

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:23:09AM +0100, Daniel Franke wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 December 2009 17:37:01 I wrote:
> > To see if it actually works as intended, arith.c, decl.c and expr.c were
> > already transformed to use the new API. As some inserts on tail-pointers
> > were replaced by list traversals from begining to end, compile-time
> > performance degraded a bit (testcase gfortran.dg/initialization_21.f90
> > times out).
> 
> I spent some more time on this, revamped the iterator interface again and 
> converted all files but data.c - attached patch contains the accumulated 
> changes.
> 
> In the next step, I'll also convert data.c and remove the con_by_offset member 
> from gfc_expr.
> 
> Afterwards, drop the list implementation and move to a splay-tree.
> 
> Regression tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu. Still one performance regression.
> Ok for fortran-dev?
> 

Daniel,

I haven't had time to read the patch, yet.  I believe
that this type of patch belongs fortran-dev, but can
you check with Janus to ensure that conflicts with
his (and pault's) OOP work do not occur.

PS: I'll read the patch over in the next few days.

-- 
Steve