"Steven Bosscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11/28/06, Doug Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * tree.h (TYPE_CANONICAL): New. > > (TYPE_STRUCTURAL_EQUALITY): New. > > (struct tree_type): Added structural_equality, unused_bits, > > canonical fields. > > If I understand your patches correctly, this stuff is only needed for > the C-family languages. So why steal two pointers on the generic > struct tree_type? Are you planning to make all front ends use these > fields, or is it just additional bloat for e.g. Ada, Fortran, Java? > ;-)
It seems to me that all the frontends should use these fields. Hopefully we can use it as a lever to eliminate the types_compatible_p langhook. Ian
