On 03/23/2018 09:44 AM, Renlin Li wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a simple patch to correct the comment for ADDR_EXPR tree code.
> 
> The resulting expression of ADDR_EXPR is a tree with POINTER_TYPE.
> So the result mode should ptr_mode instead of Pmode.
> 
> As far as I understand, Pmode is the addressing mode. But not the mode
> to represent a pointer (or address?).
> 
> Okay to commit?
> 
> Regards,
> Renlin
> 
> gcc/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2018-03-23  Renlin Li  <renlin...@arm.com>
> 
>     * tree.def (ADDR_EXPR): Correct the commnet.I'm not sure this is strictly 
> correct.  More importantly, I'm not sure
why we care :-0

Modes are more of a target/RTL issue.  Why a tree node needs to specify
a mode in this case vs a type seems to be the more important question.

jeff



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