Hi, On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Diego Novillo wrote:
> > I think consistency should trump brevity here, so also add a tree code for > > the converter, i.e. > > ssa_stmt b = q.stmt (NOP_EXPR, shadow_type, a); > > Ah, yes. This one was amusing. When we were drafting the proposal, > Lawrence kept wondering what this NOP_EXPR thing is. I've been > suffering this name for so long, that it no longer irritates me. Had > it been named CAST_EXPR, or even NOP_CAST_EXPR, he would have probably > kept it in the example code :) We have CONVERT_EXPR, but it currently doesn't do _quite_ the same as NOP_EXPR. I once wanted to merge them (with CONVERT_EXPR surviving), but it stalled somewhere, couple years ago. Ciao, Michael.
