Hi,

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:14:07PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> > That's Toms other approach with supporting multi-step dependencies.  As I 
> > have tried to argue in the other thread, I think this idea is 
> > fundamentally broken and just hides real bugs, and I don't see why this 
> > would be different for this particular hash-map.  If the value of this 
> > hash refers to a decl that isn't mentioned anywhere else except from this 
> > hash entry, then it has no meaning anymore, and hence shouldn't itself be 
> > part of the hash anymore.
> 
> You mean key or value?  The value of course can mention various trees that
> aren't referenced from anywhere else, and it has meaning.

No, I really meant value.  If you think it has meaning, then tell me what 
it is for DECL_VALUE_EXPR (X) to be 'Y', if Y is nowhere else mentioned, 
neither in code, nor in local-decls, nor in globals, or anywhere else that 
would be reachable by GC.


Ciao,
Michael.

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