Recent removal of the 'aux' field in tree_common
Daniel Berlin
dan@dberlin.org
Thu Feb 28 10:53:00 GMT 2002
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>
> > > One problem with the 'aux' field is that it is incompatible with PCH.
> > > For PCH, you really want every pointer in every structure to have one
> > > and only one type. In particular, you don't want to have void *
> > > pointers.
> >
> > I guess the aux field is used for temporary information only inside
> > the tree optimizer, so it is nonissue for PCH.
> >
> Hmm, but in the future we might want to PCH optimized .h files
> with code in them.
Yeah, but this still doesn't require the tree optimizer structures be
serialized.
Just serialize to PCH *after* the tree optimizer runs.
>
>
> Diego.
>
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