Proposed location for variable sizes etc in ARRAY_REF and COMPONENT_REF

[Robert Dewar]

Steven Bosscher wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 04:30, Richard Kenner wrote:
> 
>>I view having two tree nodes as a last resort.  Another option is to make a
>>hash table for the nodes and store the data there.  But I was looking for
>>something more direct and saw the annotation field that's currently unused
>>in those node types.
> 
> 
> Why do you dislike new tree codes so much when basically everyone
> is saying you should do so?

To me the obvious disadvantage of two tree nodes is that lots of
places have to remember to process both. And on the other hand I
see no quantifiable advantage in having two tree nodes.