[cfe-commits] r72715 - /cfe/trunk/lib/AST/ASTContext.cpp

[Fariborz Jahanian]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Eli Friedman wrote:
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>
> I don't think I really have any questions, it's just that the way that
> the qualifier is allowed at any layer is simply weird.  The one thing
> I've considered that might make it a bit cleaner is always pulling the
> attribute out to the outermost array/pointer type, and always pushing

This is what gcc does.
>
> it back in on a dereference, which would make the whole thing actually
> work consistently.  Currently, there's an issue that for the two
> lines:
>
> __weak id* x;
> id* __weak y;
>
> The generated code for *x and *y is different.
For clang it is. gcc does the above and generates the same code.

- Fariborz

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> -Eli