Kevin André <hyperquan...@gmail.com> writes: > Is that ever going to be fixed? If a front end mangles its AST > representation, then it cannot be used for static analysis. > > Even if the constant folding in the front end is necessary for > checking semantics, you could still keep the original source in the > AST and simply attach the result of constant folding as some sort of > tag to the expression node.
I agree that it would be nice if this were fixed. Like many things in the free software world, it will happen if somebody volunteers to do it. I don't think it is a priority for any of the active gcc developers. Ian
