On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:07 AM, <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> From the Go compiler sources (cmd/gc/const.c:51...):
>
> /*
> * convert n, if literal, to type t.
> * implicit conversion.
> */
> void
> convlit(Node **np, Type *t)
> {
> return convlit1(np, t, 0);
> }
>
> /*
> * convert n, if literal, to type t.
> * return a new node if necessary
> * (if n is a named constant, can't edit n->type directly).
> */
> void
> convlit1(Node **np, Type *t, int explicit)
> {
> int ct, et;
> Node *n, *nn;
> ...
>
> There's got to be a return type for both of these that actually makes
> sense? As it stands, the Plan 9 native C compiler objects.
s/return //
It's just a bug left over from when convlit and convlit1
did return things. Gcc apparently lets you do this.
Russ
