Q: C++ FE emitting assignments to global read-only symbols?

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:57:31PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> Some of these global properties probably belong in cgraph_var node's
> instead of shoving them into the tree structure.

I tend to agree.  This would allow us to do things like find out
that the variable is read-write while compiling the function that
handles all the static initialization.  Later, while looking at
functions that are not connected with initialization, they'll 
appear to be read-only.

The important part is that cgraph will have to know about which
functions are called from where, and whether or not a function can
possibly be invoked at a time in which a variable hasn't completed
its initialization.  And, possibly, whether we ought to generate
multiple copies of a function -- one with the variable read-only
and one read-write.


r~