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From: lexa@dm.botik.ru (Alexey I. Adamovich)
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Subject: Re: Help ! Frozen by a comment in gcc/c-common.h!
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090829194244.GA20643@dm.botik.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090829162921.GA23668@adam.botik.ru>

Forgot RID_LAST_MODIFIER

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:29:21PM +0400, Alexei I. Adamovich wrote:
> So for the sake of those who will develop C-derived front ends, should
> we change the comment like below:
> > /* Reserved identifiers.  This is the union of all the keywords for C,
> >    C++, and Objective-C.  In the past, in earlier GCC versions all the
> >    type modifiers had to be in one block at the beginning, because
> >    they were used as mask bits.  There were 27 type modifiers; so if
> >    anybody added many more the mask mechanism would have to be
> >    redesigned.  Now it doesn't matter, since corresponding mask
> >    machinery gone */

Should the last lines be re-written as follows:
>    redesigned.  Now it doesn't matter, since corresponding mask
>    machinery gone.  But anyway when adding any type modifier it's
>    better to follow the old rule and to get sure that
>    RID_LAST_MODIFIER is defined and handled correctly also */
[?]

Alexei I. Adamovich

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-29 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-27 13:29 Alexei I. Adamovich
2009-08-28  4:53 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-08-30  3:04   ` Alexei I. Adamovich
2009-08-30  6:58     ` Alexey I. Adamovich [this message]
2009-08-31 18:23       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-08-31 19:27         ` Alexey I. Adamovich

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