RFD: language hooks in GIMPLE / lang_flag?

[Mark Mitchell]

Richard Kenner wrote:
>> In RTL, sure.  In GIMPLE, I don't think so, as if you do that you lose
>> the type information about the result.  But, I'm not a GIMPLE expert;
>> maybe there's some magic way of handling this.
> 
> The type of the "result" is always the type of the LHS. 

OK.  But, GIMPLE is also supposed to be type-safe, so I wouldn't think
that "int = long" would be well-formed gimple.

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