Language-specific tree nodes

Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Mon Jan 1 19:27:00 GMT 2001


Peter Gerwinski <peter@gerwinski.de> writes:

> the Pascal language has to different operators for potentiation,
> `pow' and `**'. However, `tree.def' provides only one tree node
> EXPON_EXPR. An additional _EXPR tree node (which would, as
> EXPON_EXPR, never reach the backend) is needed here.

You have not explained why you need two tree node types.
How are they different?  Maybe both can be special cases of EXPON_EXPR.
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