------- Comment #2 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-05-03 14:00 ------- > The frontend should emit calls to the gcc bultin functions which are properly > constant-folded.
I think this already happens. The problem is that the information is needed much, much earlier: In initialization expressions, here, the front end needs to know result of the expression for other front-end stuff - such as deciding whether a REAL(4) or REAL(8) number is requested. -- burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|enhancement |normal http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36117