On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Note that we have tons of code which accept either objects or types, > both in the frontends and in the middle-end, so changing TREE_TYPE > from tree to something else is definitely non-trivial. Well, sure it's hard. This is the whole point behind Andrew's refactoring project: setting up the groundwork for this kind of conversion to be possible. The software engineering atrocities that we have committed in the code base are going to take a few iterations to fix. But fix them, we must. I am convinced that this is the only way for GCC to avoid untimely oblivion; and allow it to evolve in ways that are now hard or impossible to implement. Diego.
