* Reflection for unions
@ 2021-12-12 19:53 Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
2021-12-15 8:49 ` Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
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From: Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen @ 2021-12-12 19:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jit
We have structs and unions in libgccjit. While structs have their own
internal type, gcc_jit_struct, this doesn't seem to be the case for unions.
This makes me wonder whether reflection is possible for union types. For
structs, we have, for example, gcc_jit_struct_get_field.
What is the reason for the different treatment of structs and unions?
Thanks,
Marc
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* Re: Reflection for unions
2021-12-12 19:53 Reflection for unions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
@ 2021-12-15 8:49 ` Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
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From: Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen @ 2021-12-15 8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen; +Cc: jit
PS This is also related to the question of how to forward-declare a union
in libgccjit as in:
union foo;
struct bar
{
union foo *ptr;
};
union foo
{
struct bar *bar;
};
Currently, one can solve this problem by wrapping the union in a
one-field-struct but this is inconvenient and possibly makes optimization
more difficult.
Am So., 12. Dez. 2021 um 20:53 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <
marc.nieper+gnu@gmail.com>:
> We have structs and unions in libgccjit. While structs have their own
> internal type, gcc_jit_struct, this doesn't seem to be the case for unions.
> This makes me wonder whether reflection is possible for union types. For
> structs, we have, for example, gcc_jit_struct_get_field.
>
> What is the reason for the different treatment of structs and unions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
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