[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).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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