[LTO]: patch committed to properly handle VAR_DECLs and FIELD_DECLs

[Chris Lattner]

On Aug 28, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Kenneth Zadeck wrote:
>
>>> There is a way to get mutual recursion between variables; you can  
>>> do this:
>>>
>>>   extern int i;
>>>   int j = i;
>>>   int i = j;
>>>
>>> Will your code handle this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>> Mark even though we talked about this on the phone, i do not get  
>> this.
>> i will not see the var decl for i because it is not a local var.
>>
>> i do not think that you can do this with just local vars.
>
> You're right; in C you can't do this with just local variables.   
> I'm not
> sure if you can in Ada, though.  But, yeah, maybe it's a case we  
> can not
> worry about just yet.

With globals you still have fun games like this, even in C:

extern void *i;
void *j = &i;
void *i = &j;

-Chris