On Tue, 20 May 2014, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > Same as for going C++. > > Not to the same extent, this will be worse because done en masse throughout > the code instead of gradually.
Like the gimple -> gimple * change pending or the various gimple -> gswitch,glabel,etc. stuff? It's on a similar scale at lest. > > Make the code base easier to understand for newcomers. It's also a > > documentation improvement (you see what a HOST_WIDE_INT really is), > > alongside with [u]int64_t being less to type ... > > I personally find the abstraction and the separation with the other, more > mundane types useful, but I guess that it's a matter of habit. Yeah. I'm happy of converting only "obvious" cases (or converting them separately at least). Of course there may be not that many decoupled pieces ... Richard.
