Hi Martin,

on 2021/6/23 上午12:14, Martin Sebor wrote:
> On 6/21/21 8:35 PM, Kewen.Lin wrote:
>> Hi Richi and Martin,
>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Richi!  One draft (not ready for review) is attached for the further
>>>> discussion.  It follows the idea of RAII-style cleanup.  I noticed that
>>>> Martin suggested stepping forward to make tree_predictive_commoning_loop
>>>> and its callees into one class (Thanks Martin), since there are not many
>>>> this kind of C++-style work functions, I want to double confirm which 
>>>> option
>>>> do you guys prefer?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Such general cleanup is of course desired - Giuliano started some of it 
>>> within
>>> GSoC two years ago in the attempt to thread the compilation process.  The
>>> cleanup then helps to get rid of global state which of course interferes 
>>> here
>>> (and avoids unnecessary use of TLS vars).
>>>
>>> So yes, encapsulating global state into a class and making accessors
>>> member functions is something that is desired (but a lot of mechanical
>>> work).
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Richard.
>>>
>>> I meant that not necessarily as something to include in this patch
>>> but as a suggestion for a future improvement.  If you'd like to
>>> tackle it at any point that would be great of course   In any
>>> event, thanks for double-checking!
>>>
>>> The attached patch looks good to me as well (more for the sake of
>>> style than anything else, declaring the class copy ctor and copy assignment 
>>> = delete would > make it clear it's not meant to be
>>> copied, although in this case it's unlikely to make a practical
>>> difference).
>>>
>>> Martin.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your explanation!  Sorry for the late response.
>> As the way to encapsulate global state into a class and making accessors
>> member functions looks more complete, I gave up the RAII draft and
>> switched onto this way.
>>
>> This patch is to encapsulate global states into a class and
>> making their accessors as member functions, remove some
>> consequent useless clean up code, and do some clean up with
>> RAII.
> 
> Nice!
> 
> A further improvement worth considering (if you're so inclined :)
> is replacing the pcom_worker vec members with auto_vec (obviating
> having to explicitly release them) and for the same reason also
> replacing the comp_ptrs bare pointer members with auto_vecs.
> There may be other opportunities to do the same in individual
> functions (I'd look to get rid of as many calls to functions
> like XNEW()/XNEWVEC() and free() use auto_vec instead).
> 
> An unrelated but worthwhile change is to replace the FOR_EACH_
> loops with C++ 11 range loops, analogously to:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-June/572315.html
> 
> Finally, the only loosely followed naming convention for member
> variables is to start them with the m_ prefix.
> 
> These just suggestions that could be done in a followup, not
> something I would consider prerequisite for accepting the patch
> as is if I were in a position to make such a decision.
> 

Many thanks for all the great suggestions!  I'll deal with them
in a follow up patch.


BR,
Kewen

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