On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > On 09/16/2014 11:18 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > > (That TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT maps an array of qualified type to an array of > > corresponding unqualified type necessitates lots of special cases in the > > front end to avoid applying TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT to array types, since in C > > terms array types are always unqualified and are unrelated to an array of > > corresponding unqualified element type.) > > Sounds like you want a c_type_main_variant wrapper then? What exactly breaks > if you ignore the problem and apply TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT to arrays?
Anything where the C standard defines something in terms of the unqualified versions of types, or the set of qualifiers on a type, operates incorrectly (tests compatibility of the wrong types, etc.) if you apply TYPE_MAIN_VARIANT to arrays. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
