Questions on tree-inline.c

[Jason Merrill]

On Fri, 13 Jun 03 09:23:39 EDT, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:

>      > And why do we have two tree nodes that are essentially the same
>      > except for the name (like GOTO_EXPR and GOTO_STMT, RETURN_EXPR and
>      > RETURN_STMT, etc)?
>
>     History.
>
> But how?  Why would somebody add a new node that was identical to an old one?

Because I was trying to represent C++ templates in a form as close to the
source as possible, and _STMT nodes have slightly special properties, so it
was simpler to create new ones for all C++ statement types.  I'm sorry
those same tree codes were reused for functions-as-trees in C++ and then C.

Jason