Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Mon Aug 26 03:18:00 GMT 2002
Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
| Zack Weinberg wrote:-
|
| > TREE_LIST nodes, incidentally, have ridiculous overhead if being used
| > as plain old cons chains, or even alists. Four pointers (chain, type,
| > purpose, value) plus a whole word of flag bits which are generally
| > unused.
|
| I really hope this all gets fixed by moving to more "definite" structs,
| rather than a catch-all union for trees.
I agree with you. I even hope that some silly type-errors will be
caught.
-- Gaby
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