On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Steve Kargl
<s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
>> Richi has asked the we break the wide-int patch so that the individual port 
>> and front end maintainers can review their parts without have to go through 
>> the entire patch.    This patch covers the fortran front end.
>>
>> Ok?
>>
>> +  *logical = wi::eq_p (t, 0) ? 0 : 1;
>
> I can't find the meaning of :: in n1256.pdf.  What does this do?

wi:: eq_p means the function eq_p inside the wi struct.

>
> Also, given the complete lack of a description of what this
> patch does and no pointer to a discussion of what this
> patch does, and no description of its benefit to gfortran,
> I vote "no".

The general description was in a different email:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-11/msg02877.html

The main benefit is it allows for targets to support wider integer
than two times HOST_WIDE_INT.  So gfortran, is that it connects to the
rest of the middle-end of GCC.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

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