[C PATCH]: tidy some code
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 26 12:31:00 GMT 2002
On 26 Nov 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> | if (code == UNION_TYPE)
> | ! error ("redefinition of `union %s'", IDENTIFIER_POINTER (name));
> | else
> | ! error ("redefinition of `struct %s'", IDENTIFIER_POINTER (name));
>
> Hi Nathan, I'm not clear about why this conditional is done here.
> I think the diagnostic machinary is able to figure out how to print
> name with the appropriate class-key. What else am I missing?
That the code was made this way by Paolo Bonzini to allow for different
gender of struct/union/enum in some languages
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-06/msg01330.html> (c-decl.c
revision 1.260).
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
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