Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce attribute reverse_alias

2023-07-18 Thread Richard Biener via Gcc-patches
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 6:29 AM Alexandre Oliva via Gcc-patches wrote: > > Hello, Nathan, > > On Jul 15, 2023, Nathan Sidwell wrote: > > > Not commenting on the semantics, but the name seems unfortunate (hello > > bikeshed). > > Yeah, it's a bit challenging to express the concept, when the notion

Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce attribute reverse_alias

2023-07-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva via Gcc-patches
Hello, Nathan, On Jul 15, 2023, Nathan Sidwell wrote: > Not commenting on the semantics, but the name seems unfortunate (hello > bikeshed). Yeah, it's a bit challenging to express the concept, when the notion of "alias" is kind of symmetric between decl and target, but the previously-implemente

Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce attribute reverse_alias

2023-07-15 Thread Nathan Sidwell via Gcc-patches
Not commenting on the semantics, but the name seems unfortunate (hello bikeshed). The documentation starts with 'attribute causes @var{name} to be emitted as an alias to the definition'. So not emitting a 'reverse alias', whatever that might be. It doesn;t seem to mention how reverse alias di