Hi,
I am working on an LTO pass which drops unused fields on structs. On my
tests, I found that the gimple generated for `sizeof` is a constant. For
example, for the following C code:
```
struct astruct_s { _Bool c; _Bool a; _Bool b; };
struct astruct_s astruct;
int
main()
{
int size = sizeof(astruct);
return 0;
}
```
Produces the following gimple code:
```
size_1 = 3;
_2 = 0;
<L0>:
return _2;
```
Is there a way to determine where the value assigned to size_1 is
obtained from? I would like to
1. inspect sizeof statements
2. determine whether the argument of sizeof is struct astruct_s
3. substitute struct astruct_s with a modified version of struct
astruct_s which has field `a` removed.
Therefore, at the end of this transformation we would have size_1 = 2;
Similary, I would like pointer arithmetic to be affected. For example:
```
struct astruct_s { _Bool c; _Bool a; _Bool b; };
struct astruct_s astruct;
int
main()
{
_Bool *c = &astruct.c;
_Bool *b = &astruct.b;
ptrdiff_t d = b - c;
printf("%d\n", d);
}
```
Produces the following gimple code:
```
c_3 = &astruct.c;
b_4 = &astruct.b;
d_5 = b_4 - c_3;
```
Running the code results in the value 2 being printed . After running
the transformation, the result should be 1.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
So far I have tried changing the TYPE_FIELDS to drop field a, but that
doesn't work and it is not general. I also have some code which
creates a copy of RECORD_TYPE tree and modifies the tree and creates a
new identifier for this modified RECORD_TYPE tree. However, I believe
this may still not produce the intended behaviour.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
-Erick
