Re: [rfc][08/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Make pointer arithmetic explicit

Joel Brobecker
2008-09-05T18:21:39Z

> Ulrich> I was trying to make the "value_*" routines be as much as possible
> Ulrich> language- and architecture-independent, and push language- and
> Ulrich> architecture-specific semantics up to higher layers. (In this case,
> Ulrich> the expression evaluator. In fact, I might like it even better if
> Ulrich> expressions themselves were also language-agnostic, and all the
> Ulrich> language-specific semantics were encoded explicitly into different
> Ulrich> operand codes by the parsers ...)
>
> FWIW, I also would prefer this approach.

Same here - generally speaking. There might be cases like Daniel says
where we're not ready for that (yet?), but that's definitely a goal
at least as far as Ada support has been concerned.

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Joel