Bug 16115, C++ invisible references

[Mark Mitchell]

Jason Merrill wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:16:23 -0700, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
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>>Richard Henderson wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:03:20PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>>>I'm not keen on mixing, and I've got no beef with GENERIC;  I just want
>>>>to see that the transformation to GENERIC happen separately.
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>>>I have no problem with that.
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>>>Indeed, if you can get the representation of normal functions
>>>closer to what you need for template functions, then things
>>>might well be cleaner all through the front end.
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>>Indeed.  My longer-term roadmap would be to gradually move the
>>transformations that we already do into the high-level->GENERIC conversion
>>phase.  For example, I'd postpone vtable generation and lowering of virtual
>>function calls until that phase.  Another win of this approach is better
>>diagnostics; right now, our expression-printers will sometimes print out
>>gobbledygook about vtables when trying to show a virtual function call, for
>>example.
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>>Jason?
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>OK.
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Yay, I like agreement. :-)

Thanks,

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