[m-dev.] for review: generating C layout structures

[Peter Ross]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:16:56PM +1100, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> On 08-Jan-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > For review by Tyson.
> > 
> > Estimated hours taken: 30
> > 
> > Instead of generating the layout structures of labels, procs and modules
> > as rvals, generate them almost entirely as C structures. This will make
> > future modifications much easier, since mismatches between what the runtime
> > expects and what the compiler generates will now be pointed out by the C
> > compiler. (It also reduces the size of the C source files generated with
> > debugging enabled by about 5%.) Layout structures contain a few components
> > that are not well-typed in C; we continue to generate these as rvals.
> > 
In the past these sort of changes have had a fairly high success rate in
breaking the MSVC backend, as it is not as forgiving a compiler as gcc.
Maybe you could test this change with lcc before checking it in?

Pete
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