Add function to strip pointer type and get down to the actual pointee type.

Add a function to traverse down the pointer layers to the pointee type.

gcc/ChangeLog:
	* tree.h (strip_pointer_types): New.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gcc/tree.h b/gcc/tree.h
index 55f97f9..99f2617 100644
--- a/gcc/tree.h
+++ b/gcc/tree.h
@@ -5053,6 +5053,17 @@ strip_array_types (tree type)
   return type;
 }
 
+/* Recursively traverse down pointer type layers to pointee type.  */
+
+inline const_tree
+strip_pointer_types (const_tree type)
+{
+  while (POINTER_TYPE_P (type))
+    type = TREE_TYPE (type);
+
+  return type;
+}
+
 /* Desription of the reason why the argument of valid_constant_size_p
    is not a valid size.  */
 enum cst_size_error {