[lto]: PATCH: Add output of functions.

[Steven Bosscher]

On Friday 08 September 2006 22:21, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Friday 08 September 2006 17:33, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > As we've discussed, CONST_DECLs should be replaced with their
> > DECL_INITIAL values.  That can happen in the gimplifier, or in your
> > code, but there's no need to worry about how to write them out and
> > there's no need to ever create a CONST_DECL in the reader.
>
> I wasn't in that discussion so ignore me if the point is moot, but...
>
> How are you going to handle addressable CONST_DECLs?  The Fortran
> front end (and probably other front ends) use such CONST_DECLs to
> pass constants by reference.  Seems to me you can't replace those
> with their DECL_INITIAL, and that you have to be able to write 'em
> out and read 'em back in...?

I hear this has already been discussed at length, so ignore me :-)

Gr.
Steven