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| author | dnovillo <dnovillo@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2004-12-14 13:41:52 +0000 |
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| committer | dnovillo <dnovillo@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2004-12-14 13:41:52 +0000 |
| commit | ca8acac98d4d80fb740ca94d0a33d2e4c616a490 (patch) | |
| tree | c9633bce8a58c594c3a8efbd016f9340bb1400dd /gcc/tree-gimple.c | |
| parent | efcbcf834ce7472f2bc23dc15375957b236c5e8f (diff) | |
| download | gcc-ca8acac98d4d80fb740ca94d0a33d2e4c616a490.tar.gz | |
* tree-gimple.c (get_base_address): Update documentation.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@92134 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/tree-gimple.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/tree-gimple.c b/gcc/tree-gimple.c index 935e5ae21a2..61d2ec74ace 100644 --- a/gcc/tree-gimple.c +++ b/gcc/tree-gimple.c @@ -419,7 +419,14 @@ get_call_expr_in (tree t) return NULL_TREE; } -/* Given a memory reference expression T, return its base address. */ +/* Given a memory reference expression T, return its base address. + The base address of a memory reference expression is the main + object being referenced. For instance, the base address for + 'array[i].fld[j]' is 'array'. You can think of this as stripping + away the offset part from a memory address. + + This function calls handled_component_p to strip away all the inner + parts of the memory reference until it reaches the base object. */ tree get_base_address (tree t) |