Re: Foo<int,(char*)&string>

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:20:08PM -0500, Michael Chastain wrote:
> The second template parameter is a "char *"; a value, not a type.
> 
> gcc 3.3.2 -gstabs+ emits this:
> 
>   .stabs "Foo<int,&string>:Tt(1,1)=..."
> 
> gcc HEAD -gstabs+ just changed to emit this:
> 
>   .stabs "Foo<int,(char*)(&string)>:Tt(0,25)=..."
> 
> Do we care?  I think the "(char*)(&string)" looks ugly but is legal.
> I want to change templates.exp to accept this as a PASS.  I've found
> enough serious stabs+ bugs with gcc that I don't want to make a fuss
> over this difference.
> 
> What do you think?

I don't care.  Eventually hopefully we will canonicalize this.  Code to
do it is on drow-cplus-branch (but not used, even there; it can't be
until some other startup performance issues are resolved...).

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer