Patch: stab info for const fields

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Thu Oct 31 15:50:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 06:25:48PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
>      (3a) The types are "compatible", which is a term with a precise
>           but language-specific definition; consult the relevant standard.
> 
> I don't like that idea at all.  It means that how you interpret a tree
> in the middle-end is a function of the front-end that generated it.
> But I'd strongly argue that the trees are meant to be a
> language-independent IL.

If you look again at the bit you snipped, the implementation I
suggested should be totally language-independent (in the
language-independent parts of the compiler).

zw



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