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From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-patches List <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFA: PATCH to make fold_indirect_ref_1 fold more things
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC97076.5040506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikeUb3v2EATe5tUoxU6+2xcsFhja4fJ93UFz2s8@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/27/2010 02:29 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Jason Merrill<jason@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> For constexpr I need to be able to fold some tree forms that
>> fold_indirect_ref_1 didn't handle; this patch extends it to handle folding
>> POINTER_PLUS_EXPR to an ARRAY_REF, and also folding to COMPONENT_REF.
>
> I think by making this kind of transforms you are prone to bugs like PR44468.

Ah, interesting.  But it seems to me that this case is different because 
we are starting from an ADDR_EXPR around an expression of the aggregate 
type in the folded expression, not just any pointer to the aggregate 
type.  What do you think?

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-28 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-27  2:16 Jason Merrill
2010-10-27 20:10 ` Richard Guenther
2010-10-28 16:18   ` Jason Merrill [this message]
2010-10-29 16:06     ` Richard Guenther
2010-10-29 21:51       ` Jason Merrill
2010-10-30  7:53         ` Richard Guenther
2010-10-31 23:44           ` Jason Merrill
2010-11-01 22:17             ` Richard Guenther

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