From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19988 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2004 21:30:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 19981 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2004 21:30:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Jun 2004 21:30:43 -0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5MLRip4024776; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:27:45 -0400 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5MLUfw28624; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:30:42 -0400 Received: from frothingslosh.sfbay.redhat.com (frothingslosh.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.27]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5MLUfP15619; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:30:41 -0700 Received: from frothingslosh.sfbay.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by frothingslosh.sfbay.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5MLUfQw012954; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:30:41 -0700 Received: (from rth@localhost) by frothingslosh.sfbay.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5MLUfx0012952; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:30:41 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: frothingslosh.sfbay.redhat.com: rth set sender to rth@redhat.com using -f Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:07:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson To: Richard Kenner Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Patch to allow Ada to work with tree-ssa Message-ID: <20040622213041.GA12889@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Henderson , Richard Kenner , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org References: <10406222108.AA11261@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10406222108.AA11261@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg01812.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:08:04PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote: > I don't follow. TYPE_SIZE_UNIT was added because TYPE_SIZE was too large > to represent in an integer. Doing arithmetic in units *larger* than > bytes doesn't have that problem. No. I added it because divide-by-8 kept appearing in Fortran code in response to arrays of variable dimension. It had a nice side effect that it allowed us to finally represent objects the size of the address space, but that was not the original reason. r~