On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 15:29 -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Andrew -- > > I'm trying to firm up GCC 4.3 planning a bit. One of the things I'm > considering is whether or not the POINTER_PLUS branch should be merged > as part of 4.3. My understanding from looking at your emails is that > the branch is in pretty good shape. > > Would you please give me a summary of the status? Are there regressions > on major platforms? > > Also, does anyone feel that this representation change is a bad thing? > Are there any objections to merging this branch in principle, assuming > that it's not causing regressions, either in generate code or at compile > time? No objections from me -- I'm just happy someone went through the trouble of fixing all the issues necessary to make PTR_PLUS work. When I looked at what it would take to break out pointer arithmetic from normal arithmetic it looked to be rather ugly.
I haven't followed PTR_PLUS development at all -- what specifically spurred you to hack on this Andrew? Jeff
