Sandra Loosemore - CALL_EXPR representation changes coming; need patch reviewer(s) (original) (raw)

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• From: Sandra Loosemore
• To: GCC Patches
• Cc: Brooks Moses , Lee Millward
• Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:27:06 -0500
• Subject: CALL_EXPR representation changes coming; need patch reviewer(s)

Last summer I made changes on the LTO branch to the representation of CALL_EXPRs, to store the arguments in the expr itself (making it of variable size) rather than in an attached TREE_LIST. The primary purpose of the change was memory savings, but introducing new accessor macros and constructor functions also had the side-effect of simplifying a lot of code that builds and manipulates call expressions.Recently, Brooks Moses, Lee Millward, and I have been making a push to get these changes merged to mainline; we're getting close to finishing testing and will probably have a patch ready by the beginning of next week. Can we get a volunteer or volunteers to commit to reviewing the patch? It's going to be a very large patch since this change affects many parts of the compiler; and getting it reviewed in a timely manner will help prevent the changes from getting bit-rotted again before they can be committed.Once the patch is approved, we will probably need to ask for a check-in window for the final merge and commit, as described inhttp://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-09/msg00454.htmlThanks,-Sandra

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