Help with BLOCK vs BIND_EXPR trees?

Help with BLOCK vs BIND_EXPR trees?

[Jerry Quinn]

Hi, all.  I have a basic question about GENERIC trees.

I'm playing with writing a front end, and find the distinction between
BLOCK and BIND_EXPR to be somewhat confusing.  In particular, I'm trying
to get a handle on how to represent a function in GENERIC form.

On the surface the texi docs and code comments don't seem to agree:

Section on function trees say FUNCTION_DECL represents a function, and
that DECL_INITIAL is not empty.  But it doesn't say what should be
contained there.  It says DECL_SAVED_TREE should contain the body of the
function.

The comments in tree.h say that DECL_INITIAL holds the body of a
function, with a BLOCK tree at the root.

BLOCK nodes are described under TREE_SSA->GIMPLE, though these nodes are
part of GENERIC if I understand correctly.  In this section, it says
that block scopes and variables are declared in BIND_EXPR nodes.

Can someone please clarify how these things are supposed to relate in
GENERIC form, assuming the default conversion to GIMPLE will be used?

Thanks,
Jerry Quinn