From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20477 invoked by alias); 3 May 2011 19:52:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 20467 invoked by uid 22791); 3 May 2011 19:52:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 May 2011 19:52:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 5452 invoked from network); 3 May 2011 19:52:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (froydnj@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 3 May 2011 19:52:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 20:05:00 -0000 From: Nathan Froyd To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Eric Botcazou , Jan Hubicka , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Xinliang David Li Subject: Re: [google]: initialize language field for clone function struct Message-ID: <20110503195243.GD23480@codesourcery.com> References: <20110503164614.GB18705@kam.mff.cuni.cz> <201105032034.51751.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <20110503191043.GC23480@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00218.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:27:24PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011, Nathan Froyd wrote: > > The raft of changes/improvements enabled by this change would be most > > welcome. *_SIZE becoming double_ints or HOST_WIDE_INT instead of trees > > is the first thing that comes to mind; perhaps there are others. > > I don't see how you can do that; you'll still have variable-sized types > and objects, it would just be entirely the front end's responsibility to > ensure that the size expression is evaluated exactly once (whenever > required by the language). Ah, you're right. I got carried away about thinking about FE-specific data structures for things. -Nathan