From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Liang Wang <netcasper@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: misleading description in vec.h?
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcrpqini80v.fsf@coign.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO+NnCZE19MwgsULk17aWmzzZ7p2UxkC_KiRC6u0esXc3qAx0w@mail.gmail.com> (Liang Wang's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:15:26 +0800")
Liang Wang <netcasper@gmail.com> writes:
> Here is comment from line 36, gcc/vec.h
>
> Both the structure object and pointer variants
> pass pointers to objects around -- in the former case the pointers
> are stored into the vector and in the latter case the pointers are
> dereferenced and the objects copied into the vector.
>
> But by reading implementation, it seems that this description is reverse.
> I think that it should be something like
>
> in the *latter* case the pointers
> are stored into the vector and in the *former* case the pointers are
> dereferenced and the objects copied into the vector.
>
> That is, the pointers in structure object variant are dereferenced and
> the objects copied into the vector.
I think you are correct and the comment is wrong.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 16:27 UTC|newest]
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2011-09-26 16:23 Liang Wang
2011-09-26 17:35 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2011-09-27 9:51 ` Liang Wang
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