[cfe-dev] PATCH: Cleanup function redeclaration representations

[Doug Gregor]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Mike Stump <mrs at apple.com> wrote:
> On May 4, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Doug Gregor wrote:
>
> > My gut tells me that most clients that are doing any kind of analysis will
> care only about the "aggregate" version of the decl.
> >
>
>  Yeah, I wonder if the memory saving of having the client declare up front
> what they want would outweigh the downside of having the code only collects
> what the client is interested in.  Having two decls when a client only
> really needs one would be unfortunate.  If downside isn't a big deal, having
> the client essentially say, I only need the merged decls would be best.

I think the interface would be simpler if we could avoid such modes.
Every mode setting like this increases the testing burden quite a bit.

  - Doug