From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26693 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2004 21:01:36 -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 26679 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2004 21:01:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.9) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Nov 2004 21:01:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 9771 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2004 21:01:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.189.167?) (nathan@127.0.0.1) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2004 21:01:31 -0000 Message-ID: <41A253A2.1050205@codesourcery.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:23:00 -0000 From: Nathan Sidwell Organization: Codesourcery LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ziemowit Laski CC: gcc mailing list , Steve Naroff , Michael Matz , Matt Austern , Joe Buck , Andrew Pinski , Mike Stump Subject: Re: generalized lvalues -- patch outline References: <4D2CF60C-3919-11D9-8BD2-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <20041117212847.A26376@synopsys.com> <6F5FC748-7BBD-44B9-8DDC-246949F16102@apple.com> <20041118102741.A8347@synopsys.com> <77E8D36A-C0C2-4B03-964C-BEE0FE7BBBC3@apple.com> <98C86CD4-39E2-11D9-B2D5-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <20041119170011.A30410@synopsys.com> <9E6AD708-3A93-11D9-9070-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <20041119174042.A1311@synopsys.com> <90DC5074-3A96-11D9-9070-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <9CD04F70-3CC6-11D9-B847-000D9330C50E@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <9CD04F70-3CC6-11D9-B847-000D9330C50E@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00758.txt.bz2 Ziemowit Laski wrote: > Indeed, I now appear to have a mainline mod for C and C++ which allows > assignment to lvalue casts for pointer types. What follows is a > high-level synopsis of what I did; if there is interest, I can whip up a > full-fledged patch, complete with docs. Please let me know. Please describe the semantics *in detail* of what you are trying to achieve. Why are the modify-assignment operators not allowed? That appears non-orthogonal. nathan -- Nathan Sidwell :: http://www.codesourcery.com :: CodeSourcery LLC nathan@codesourcery.com :: http://www.planetfall.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk