[cfe-dev] integer constant expression oh my!

[Nuno Lopes]

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>> I wrote up some thoughts about how I think that constants should
>> eventually be handled in clang:
>> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/InternalsManual.html#Constants
>>
>> The goal is for Expr::isConstantExpr and many other things to
>> eventually go away, and only have one piece of code that does the
>> constant folding tree walk.  Before we get too far along this path, I
>> thought it would be good to see if this makes sense to others... so,
>> what say you all? :)

This is great as it's horrible to find the same bug over and over again in 
slightly different places because the code is duplicated.

One thing I would like to add (that I was discussing yesterday in IRC) is a 
Expr::EvaluateToBool() (just export the HandleConversionToBool() from 
ExprConstant.cpp). This function is important to fix a few bugs in codegen 
and sema. What do you think?

Nuno