internal_reference_types

[Richard Biener]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
>> What (Ada!) targets would it make a difference on?  As it affects TYPE_SIZE
>> it also affects layout (obviously), so I wonder how this can be an
>> optimization (I assume it was intended to be one - likely for Adas fat
>> pointer representation?)
>
> Only Richard K. might remember the details.  Possibly for IA-64/HP-UX -milp32.
> In any case, having a different representation for pointers and references is
> a recipe for annoying issues like this, so removing the kludge is OK with me.

With me as well - patch pre-approved on the middle-end side.

Richard.

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> Eric Botcazou