IMA vs tree-ssa

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:

| On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
| 
| > However, I don't think there's any point in all of us debating this
| > issue.  We don't agree on the answer, and none of us has a particularly
| > good way of backing up our position.  To me, this idea of multiple
| > completions of the same incomplete type is ghastly.  You, however,
| > believe it is what the standard requires, and apparently that it is also
| > what the committe intended.
| 
| This seems simply to be a difference between C and C++ backgrounds.  
| Types in C do not have linkage; those in C++ do.  I don't know whether
| this is a deliberate difference, but it is a fairly fundamental one.

It is a deliberate difference.  But some types in C++ don't have
linkage (but they are not in consideration here).

-- Gaby