On May 12, 2014, at 3:53 AM, Richard Sandiford <rdsandif...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Yeah, but the reason I'm removing the desc/tag pair isn't so much to get > rid of that (the compiler should do it for us) but because marking it > anything other than "skip" gives the impression that we want to allow > GC pointers in the union.
Yeah, though I might like the generality of being able to do that, I will confess, I don’t think we will ever add a GC pointer, or indeed change the data much in the next 15 years.
