C++ PATCH: Reduce direct use of OFFSET_TYPE
Jason Merrill
jason@redhat.com
Fri Aug 9 14:10:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:03:52 -0700, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> The C++ front-end curiously represents pointer-to-data-memer types as
> POINTER_TYPEs wrapped around OFFSET_TYPEs. Someday we may change that,
> but not now.
We really should get around to this; apparently the POINTER_TYPE confuses
some backends into thinking it's a pointer and doing strange things. Well,
RSN.
> This patch removes some of the places where we are explicitly creating
> OFFSET_TYPEs when what we really want is a pointer-to-member.
Yay.
Jason
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