On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote: >> What (Ada!) targets would it make a difference on? As it affects TYPE_SIZE >> it also affects layout (obviously), so I wonder how this can be an >> optimization (I assume it was intended to be one - likely for Adas fat >> pointer representation?) > > Only Richard K. might remember the details. Possibly for IA-64/HP-UX -milp32. > In any case, having a different representation for pointers and references is > a recipe for annoying issues like this, so removing the kludge is OK with me.
With me as well - patch pre-approved on the middle-end side. Richard. > -- > Eric Botcazou