[PATCH PR/82546] tree node size

[Olivier Hainque]

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 16:10 , Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10/17/2017 05:26 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> 
>> Sorry for not looking at the patch before replying.  The patch looks ok
>> but shouldn't LANG_TYPE be also handled by the FE?  LANG_TYPE itself
>> is an odd beast if I may say that - it's only used by the C++ and Ada FEs
>> and the Ada FE does only
> 
> I agree.  I think LANG_TYPE may be from when there were no FE-specific nodes.  It should probably be killed and resurrected as appropriate FE nodes.
> 
> Olivier, as an ADA person, is that something that could be done?

I'd think so. LANG_TYPE is treated specially in several
places and Ada debug types are pretty sensitive so this would
require caution but I don't see/know-of obvious reasons why this
couldn't be done.

Eric and Pierre-Marie (cc'ed) might have more precise insights.

Olivier