[PATCH][RFC] Introduce type safety and debuggability into tree.h

Diego Novillo dnovillo@google.com
Thu Aug 9 22:59:00 GMT 2007


On 8/9/07 4:55 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Yes, and, hence, we will always avoid the merge pain. :-)

Ah, sure, that's a good point :)

> I just don't see that there's that much advantage in advertising whether
> or not something is a macro in this way, relative to the pain.  We're
> probably talking about changes to 50% of the lines in many files in the
> compiler.

I agree.  I don't really have a strong preference for this.
Historically we've named these in capitals, the names are probably
pretty entrenched in people's minds.

Moreover, it probably simplifies Simon's patch quite a bit.  I'll go
with the popular vote here.  I don't really mind.



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