[cfe-dev] Objective-C super parsing

[Ted Kremenek]

On Jun 21, 2008, at 11:10 AM, David Chisnall wrote:

> Hi Ted,
>
> On 21 Jun 2008, at 18:51, Ted Kremenek wrote:
>
>> I fixed the test case to use stdint.h.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> I'm a little confused.  I'm looking back over the emails (subject:  
>> Objective-C tidy up) and I thought the decision was to not use  
>> PredefinedExpr for super/self/etc.  I could have easily missed an  
>> email (I have a backlog from pre-WWDC).  Could you please clarify  
>> (or be so kind to point me to the email I missed on the list  
>> archives, since you probably remember the exact email exchange).
>
> The decision was not to use a PredefinedExpr for self and _cmd,  
> since these are just DeclRefs which reference an implicit decl.  The  
> situation is different for super, however, since it is has different  
> semantics (it is only valid as the receiver in message expressions).
>
> David

Cool.  Thanks for the clarification!