named address spaces (update)

James E Wilson wilson@specifix.com
Thu Jul 7 02:59:00 GMT 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 07:31, Martin Koegler wrote:
> * need to rewrite recursivly each element of type (which my contain structures, 
>   unions, ...) if a address space is set
>   In http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-04/msg01438.html, this was rated as bad idea.

It is possible I was wrong.  Conceptually, this doesn't seem much
different than existing type qualifiers const/volatile, for which case
we must already have a solution.  Maybe similar treatment will work for
named address spaces?

Otherwise, these answers all seem very reasonable.

One more thing occurred to me.  An official patch will also require
documentation.  We will need user documentation to explain the new
source code constructs and their behaviour.  And we will need internals
documentation to explain the new macros, etc.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com



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