[PATCH] Do not fold and build CONVERT_EXPR in fold_convert

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Sun Dec 4 01:23:00 GMT 2005


Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> writes:

| This removes the two cases where we built CONVERT_EXPR in fold_convert,
| passing it to fold.  Just build NOP_EXPR always, so fold_build1 
| (NOP_EXPR, ...) can safely be replaced by fold_convert.

I may have missed an important discussion. but can you tell me the
reason why it is preferable to build NOP_EXPR and not CONVERT_EXPR?

-- Gaby



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