PING [PATCH] accept flexible arrays in struct in unions (c++/71912 - [6/7 regression])

[Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com>]

Jason,

Are there any other changes you want me to make to the patch?
I leave this weekend for the WG14 meeting and would like to
get this change finalized and hopefully committed before then.

   https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-10/msg00410.html

Thanks
Martin

On 10/06/2016 02:29 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
>> I'm asking you to clarify the logic.  It seems that your change to
>> fldtype affects these two tests:
>>
>>>           if (eltype == fldtype || TYPE_UNNAMED_P (eltype))
>>
>>>       if (TREE_CODE (fldtype) != ARRAY_TYPE)
>>
>> ...but this is extremely subtle.  It would be a lot clearer to check fld
>> for FIELD_DECL or TYPE_DECL explicitly rather than relying on these
>> places that treat fldtype as a type to do the right thing because you've
>> obfuscated it.  But I'm tired of going back and forth on this, so here's
>> a patch.
>>
>> And now that I notice it, there seems to be no reason to handle typedefs
>> deep in the code for handling fields, it's simpler to handle them up top.
>
> I'm sorry you're frustrated.  I have no problem changing the code to
> the way you wrote it.  I agree it's more streamlined though I would
> be hard pressed to consider the improvement to be worth the time and
> effort we both put into it.  I'm also not sure I see how someone can
> be expected to write the code exactly the way you want based on little
> more than questions about why the code does what it does.  I had no
> idea what your expectation was for the fldtype variable for instance.
>
> Attached is the integrated patch.
>
> Martin
>