On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:27:24PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011, Nathan Froyd wrote: > > The raft of changes/improvements enabled by this change would be most > > welcome. *_SIZE becoming double_ints or HOST_WIDE_INT instead of trees > > is the first thing that comes to mind; perhaps there are others. > > I don't see how you can do that; you'll still have variable-sized types > and objects, it would just be entirely the front end's responsibility to > ensure that the size expression is evaluated exactly once (whenever > required by the language).
Ah, you're right. I got carried away about thinking about FE-specific data structures for things. -Nathan
