http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52283
--- Comment #10 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2012-02-16 23:52:21 UTC --- On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, manu at gcc dot gnu.org wrote: > Talking about this particular case (folding in build_c_cast), is this actually > needed here? Couldn't GCC just delay folding until actually needed? The only c_fully_fold call in build_c_cast is when a CONSTRUCTOR is generated from a cast to union (a GNU extension). That's a case of avoiding any problems recursing later inside CONSTRUCTORs (which are not particularly normal expressions). The option to delay would be to have some other representation of that cast which is only later lowered to a CONSTRUCTOR (with the inside expression being folded at that later time).
