Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] | | > The obvious place is on the DECL_INITIAL of the PARM_DECLs, but I | | > don't think they exist until the function is defined. | | | | | | I heard once that there was some long-term project of storing function | | declarations (without corresponding definitions) in a more memory-efficient | | memory representation. Moving default parameters within PARM_DECL seems a | | little backward in this respect. And if your memory is right, requiring to | | build PARM_DECLs just to store default arguments would be even worse. | | I don't see why, it is backward -- we still need to build the | PARM_DECLs default arguments or not. Consider PR c++/17395. My guess is that is partly because we do not build the PARM_DECLs (and their associated scope) early enough. -- Gaby
