alias.c:nonoverlapping_component_refs_p
Neil Booth
neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk
Mon Dec 3 10:32:00 GMT 2001
Richard Kenner wrote:-
> Where is *what* documented? You don't write documention by listing a set of
> assumptions that are *not* true, you list those that *are*. If some
> assumption is not listed, you are not entitled to make it. Nowhere is it
> stated that field positions don't overlap or that they are monotonically
> increasing, for that matter.
I think this argument is a good indication that much better and more
detailed documentation of everything about trees is needed, to the
extent that nothing is ambiguous.
I hope you'll update c-tree.texi to document exactly what being a
RECORD_TYPE means.
Neil.
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