From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26036 invoked by alias); 7 May 2002 22:04:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26002 invoked from network); 7 May 2002 22:04:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO potter.sfbay.redhat.com) (205.180.83.107) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 May 2002 22:04:01 -0000 Received: from dot.sfbay.redhat.com (dot.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.7]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g47M2tv11992; Tue, 7 May 2002 15:02:55 -0700 Received: (from rth@localhost) by dot.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g47M41G14383; Tue, 7 May 2002 15:04:01 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: dot.sfbay.redhat.com: rth set sender to rth@redhat.com using -f Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 15:13:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson To: Richard Kenner Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: PR 6212 Message-ID: <20020507150401.F14341@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Henderson , Richard Kenner , gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <10205072159.AA29887@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <10205072159.AA29887@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>; from kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:59:34PM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00519.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:59:34PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote: > If so, why do we have DECL_SIZE, DECL_MODE, etc. A historic mistake. > I'd like to move more toward a situation where we are allowed > to have these different from that of the type even more than we do now. Why? I can think of no valid use for this. It's just confusing. r~