[PATCH] Canonical types (1/3)

Steven Bosscher stevenb.gcc@gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 17:31:00 GMT 2006


On 11/28/06, Doug Gregor <doug.gregor@gmail.com> wrote:
>         * tree.h (TYPE_CANONICAL): New.
>         (TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY): New.
>         (struct tree_type): Added structural_equality, unused_bits,
>         canonical fields.

If I understand your patches correctly, this stuff is only needed for
the C-family languages.  So why steal two pointers on the generic
struct tree_type?  Are you planning to make all front ends use these
fields, or is it just additional bloat for e.g. Ada, Fortran, Java?
;-)

Gr.
Steven



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