Al Viro wrote:-

> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:44:09PM +0900, Neil Booth wrote:
>  
> > Perhaps not overloading the "+" node; reserve that for arithmetic types.
> > Have a ptr_add, (maybe) ptr_sub, and ptr_diff operations.
> 
> Making the scaling a part of operation?  It means interesting logics
> at later stages, though...

Yes.  Should be handlable in one place during the lowering phase
(linearize? - I'm not too familiar with what sparse does after
parsing).

If you do make the scaling explicit in the IR, then in-line with
my belief that the IR should make all implicit operations explicit,
the multiplication would be on two operands of the same type, with
explicit casts wherever necessary.  I think having the extra nodes
and a sane IR is much better to having a non-orthogonal IR of fewer
nodes full of special cases (look at the mess GCC has with the latter).

Neil.
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