1 Right now there is no documentation for the GCC tree -> rtl interfaces
2 (or more generally the interfaces for adding new languages).
4 Such documentation would be of great benefit to the project. Until such
5 time as we can formally start documenting the interface this file will
6 serve as a repository for information on these interface and any incompatable
10 A DECL_INITIAL of NULL_TREE or error_mark_node in a VAR_DECL is no longer
11 taken to signify a tentative definition which should not be emitted until
12 end-of-file. Frontends which want that behavior should set
13 DECL_DEFER_OUTPUT before calling rest_of_decl_compilation.
17 GCC used to store structure sizes & offsets to elements as bitsize
18 quantities. This causes problems because a structure can only be
19 (target memsize / 8) bytes long (this may effect arrays too). This
20 is particularly problematical on machines with small address spaces.
24 All trees that represent sizes in bits should have a TREE_TYPE of
25 bitsizetype (rather than sizetype).
27 Accordingly, when such values are computed / initialized, care has to
28 be takes to use / compute the proper type.
30 When a size in bits is converted into a size in bytes, which is expressed
31 in trees, care should be taken to change the tree's type again to sizetype.
35 In an effort to decrease cache thrashing and useless loads we've changed the
36 third argument to the DEFTREECODE macro to be a single char. This will
37 affect languages that defined their own tree codes (usually in a .def file).
41 DEFTREECODE (CLASS_METHOD_DECL, "class_method_decl", "d", 0)
45 DEFTREECODE (CLASS_METHOD_DECL, "class_method_decl", 'd', 0)