Why is that C++ can't create normal DECL's like everyone else?
Case in point:
(gdb)
<parm_decl 0x40125000 it
type <record_type 0x4010b2f4 node_iterator needs-constructing type_1
type_5 type_6 BLK
size <integer_cst 0x4002aa80 constant invariant 96>
unit size <integer_cst 0x4002aa98 constant invariant 12>
...
addressable used BLK file minimal.c line 194 size <integer_cst
0x4002a960 0> unit size <integer_cst 0x4002a198 0>
$11 = void
(gdb) y
So we've got a parm decl that if you ask it for the DECL_SIZE, says 0,
but has a TYPE_SIZE of 12 bytes, and we access fields in it, etc.
This is causing a bug in detecting what portions of structures are used
in tree-ssa-alias, because we use DECL_SIZE, and this causes us to think
we use no part of the structure, since it gets min/max of 0!
I'm going to work around this by using TYPE_SIZE, but it would be nice
if somebody could explain the purpose for this behavior (if it's a bug,
i'll file a bug report). I would imagine we don't have truly empty
things in C++, so you could simply assert that TREE_INT_CST_LOW of
whatever you are setting DECL_SIZE to is not 0 and find these that way.
--Dan
