Giovanni Bajo wrote: > > It looks like the general consensus is that we should not use fold() anymore > in the frontends (I consider gimplify part of middle-end already, as it is > mostly language-independent). I know Java people also are trying to remove > usage of fold() since it produces simplifications which are not allowed in > the Java semantics of constant expressions.
Not quite correct - *some* folding is still needed in Java: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/expressions.doc.html#5313 As Mark points out for C++, writing a java_fold() for these ought to be simple and we can avoid calling fold() altogether before semantic analysis has finished. I know Tom would be very happy with this scheme. :-) Ranjit. -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.hostingzero.com/
