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Re: [RFA]: Extend some arithmetic operations to range types.


On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:03:34AM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Is there something clearer you can call this?  "base" to me means "as
> > in inheritance", which is not really appropriate here.
> 
> How about using the dwarf-2 terminology: basis_type? That's how they
> call the type on which the range type is based:
> 
>         The subrange entry may have a DW_AT_type attribute to describe
>         the type of object, called the basis type, of whose values this
>         subrange is a subset.
> 
> (base type is the equivalent in Ada terminology)

Well, if I'm right that all we need is the predicate, we could probably
just use integral_type_p?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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