[llvm-commits] [llvm-gcc-4.2] r53572 - /llvm-gcc-4.2/trunk/gcc/llvm-convert.cpp

[Duncan Sands]

Hi,

> > thanks for the explanation.  However llvm-gcc already supports
> > variable byte-offsets, i.e. where the value of the byte offset
> > depends on the value of some variable, the content of a memory
> > location etc.  Ada does this for example.  So why does ObjC2
> > need something special here?
> 
> Presumably the ObjC FE trees do not look like the Ada trees.
> I don't know what the Ada trees look like.
> In ObjC, the offset is actually there twice in the tree in effect ,  
> and the user
> needs to compensate at some stage.  Don't ask me why, I didn't write  
> it:)

how does it manage to work in mainline?

Ciao,

Duncan.