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Re: [gofrontend-dev] Re: [PATCH 03/13] HACK! Allow the static chain to be set from C
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
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- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:23:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: [gofrontend-dev] Re: [PATCH 03/13] HACK! Allow the static chain to be set from C
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On 10/10/2014 06:42 PM, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> A colleague has suggested a perhaps nicer syntax:
>
> __builtin_call_chain(pointer, call) where call must be a call expression
I like this.
Unlike the other suggestions, it doesn't mess with the parsing of the "regular"
part of the function call. And, depending on what point the builtin is lowered
and applied to the AST, it might not require any parsing changes at all.
I'll have a look at this next week. Thanks.
r~