Struct hidden context pointers

[Iain Buclaw]

On 6 July 2013 22:41, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 06, 2013 14:13:29 H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn't the frame pointer be generated only if f() actually tries to
>> access something outside of the definition of T?
>
> Probably, but that's arguably an optimization. Regardless, marking it as
> static will force the issue.
>

An optimization that is on similar boundaries as virtual by default. :)

What I see is a non-POD nested struct, one that requires a 'this'
pointer to the outer context to be set-up.  However I know that gdc
probably smarter than the front-end implementation about this in that
it (the gcc glue part of the front-end) will acknowledge that there's
no outer context and will set the outer 'this' pointer to null.
Whilst still producing an error if a non-static member tries to access
it's outer context in this situation.

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Iain Buclaw

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