On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Kenneth Zadeck wrote:

> Richi,
> 
> This patch canonizes the bits above the precision for wide ints with types or
> modes that are not a perfect multiple of HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT.
> 
> I expect that most of the changes in rtl.h will go away.   in particular, when
> we decide that we can depend on richard's patch to clean up rtl constants,
> then the only thing that will be left will be the addition of the
> TARGET_SUPPORTS_WIDE_INT test.
> 
> I do believe that there is one more conserved force in the universe than what
> physicist's generally consider: it is uglyness.  There is a lot of truth and
> beauty in the patch but in truth there is a lot of places where the uglyness
> is just moved someplace else.
> 
> in the pushing the ugly around dept, trees and wide-ints are not canonized the
> same way.    I spent several days going down the road where it tried to have
> them be the same, but it got very ugly having 32 bit unsigned int csts have
> the upper 32 bits set.   So now wide_int_to_tree and the wide-int constructors
> from tree-cst are now more complex.
> 
> i think that i am in favor of this patch, especially in conjunction with
> richards cleanup, but only mildly.
> 
> There is also some cleanup where richard wanted the long lines addressed.
> 
> Ok to commit to the wide-int branch?

Looks good to me.

I'll be doing a separate review of the to/from tree parts when I
find time to do that, but that's unrelated to this patch.

Thanks,
Richard.

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