We're out of tree codes; now what?

[Andrew Pinski]

On 3/12/07, Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just wanted to say explicitely that I'm supporting completely Doug'
> efforts at fixing this issue. Well, I'm a little biased, because I'm
> working on C++/26099 and I will need at least one new tree code, but
> that's not the point, the point is that where we are implementing C++0x
> features and improving the C++ front-end generally, we are unavoidably
> adding tree codes and we must solve the issue, one way or another. We
> should help Doug in any possible way in this task, not ask for reversions.

Can I recommend something just crazy, rewrite the C and C++ front-ends
so they don't use the tree structure at all except when lowering until
gimple like the rest of the GCC front-ends?

This will cause us to get back a couple more free tree codes.

There are a couple of unused tree codes also if you want to reduce the
current number, the Objective-C++ front-end have a couple which no
longer need to be trees also (at one point people just abused tree
codes for lots of stuff).

-- Pinski