From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Alexandre Petit-Bianco <apbianco@cygnus.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Proposed new tree node for gcc
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <19980325163115.42437@dot.cygnus.com>
References: <199803242051.MAA20731@sendai.cygnus.com.>
X-SW-Source: 1998-03/msg00860.html

On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 12:51:48PM -0800, Alexandre Petit-Bianco wrote:
> We (Per Bothner and myself) propose the definition of a new tree node
> called EXPR_WITH_FILE_LOCATION defined as a 'e' node. The struct
> tree_exp is big enough to provide us with the appropriate storage
> space: `operands[]' can be used to store the encapsulated node,
> `complexity' is big enough to store line (20 bit) and column numbers
> (12 bit); `common.chain' can provide a hook for filename information.

While I think that the idea is good, doing such gross things with
overloading `common.chain' is very bad.  Defining a new struct is
not so difficult, and should be the way this is accomplished.


r~