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From: Greg McGary <gkm@eng.ascend.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: Greg McGary <gkm@eng.ascend.com>, Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>,
	Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>,
	burley@gnu.org, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: array bounds checking?
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <msra1myh0n.fsf@tucson-net-82.eng.ascend.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11492.895806192@hurl.cygnus.com>

Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:

> My biggest concern is the change in pointer size; yes BP has
> mechanisms to handle this, but it just makes me uneasy.

It does take some getting used to.  Having a BP C library helps
immensely.

> It sounds like you use a CONCAT like rtx to represent a bounded
> pointer.  Is that correct?

I invented a new rtx CONCAT3.  I don't much like it and think both
special-cases CONCAT and CONCAT3 should be replaced with a
variable-length rtx where XEXP (foo, 0) is the length.

> If so, then we're going to need to actually fix the CONCAT support.
> It's got some problems right now.

Whatever you can tell me about CONCAT problems would be a great help.
I already fixed a few CONCAT bugs in 2.7.2.

> It would also be good to get some sense of the changes involved;
> particularly for front-ends.

As promised in an earlier message, I'll send you a useless patch you
can review.  (Useless because it's either for 2.7.2 or untested for
2.8.1)

> We'd want to be able to hook into the Fortran front end initially.
> The gpc guys would probably also benefit from this code, so we'll
> want them to be able to hook in as well.

What's "gpc"?  Pascal?

  reply	other threads:[~1998-05-22  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-04-18 16:05 Idea: Eliminate libf2c/f2c.h installation from g77 entirely? Craig Burley
1998-04-18 20:56 ` Mumit Khan
1998-04-19  0:11 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-04-19  1:49   ` Craig Burley
1998-04-19  5:18     ` Dave Love
1998-04-19 11:19       ` Craig Burley
1998-04-19  5:37     ` array bounds checking? Dave Love
1998-04-21 19:10       ` Jim Wilson
1998-05-03 22:27         ` Greg McGary
1998-05-08 16:04           ` Gerald Pfeifer
1998-05-08 16:08             ` Greg McGary
1998-05-22  0:21           ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-05-22  0:32             ` Greg McGary [this message]
1998-05-22  5:42             ` Greg McGary
1998-05-22 12:21             ` Per Bothner
1998-05-22 12:14               ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-05-22 16:41               ` Pieter Nagel
1998-05-22 16:41             ` Dave Love
1998-05-22 20:21             ` Greg McGary
1998-05-26  2:32               ` Ken Raeburn
1998-04-19  8:15     ` using libtool Dave Love
1998-05-22 12:21 array bounds checking? Niall Smart
1998-05-22 16:41 ` Greg McGary
1998-05-24  4:18 Geert Bosch

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