Hi,

On Wed, 4 May 2011, Richard Guenther wrote:

> > It prevents save_expr from being called at global level, since you 
> > cannot create SAVE_EXPRs outside functions.  Likewise in 
> > variable_size.
> 
> I see several places in fold-const.c that are not properly guarded then. 
> But anyway, if it is supposed to protect SAVE_EXPRs then I'd have 
> expected save_expr to contain that check and possibly return NULL if it 
> can't save.
> 
> And I'm not sure you can't do SAVE_EXPRs outside of functions - you 
> could simply emit global temporaries.

It's not the temporary, but the evaluation that poses problems in global 
context.  (you could add a global ctor to it, ugh)


Ciao,
Michael.

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