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| author | Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> | 2020-05-20 10:13:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Pierre-Marie de Rodat <derodat@adacore.com> | 2020-07-08 10:55:53 -0400 |
| commit | 5c63fd2c90405ce32a229ebadfea96e46413ec88 (patch) | |
| tree | 39165ddac0c15ae2f087bc048dbc92b05b569c23 /gcc | |
| parent | 720425fa2dca0b7a69e28b1853932d5a77bf9333 (diff) | |
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[Ada] Add comment on implementation choice for byte-packed array types
gcc/ada/
* freeze.adb (Freeze_Array_Type): Add comment on implementation
choice for byte-packed array types.
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/ada/freeze.adb | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ada/freeze.adb b/gcc/ada/freeze.adb index cb32f9d..528a7dd 100644 --- a/gcc/ada/freeze.adb +++ b/gcc/ada/freeze.adb @@ -2928,7 +2928,10 @@ package body Freeze is -- Bit packing is not needed for multiples of the storage -- unit if the type is composite because the back end can - -- byte pack composite types. + -- byte pack composite types efficiently. That's not true + -- for discrete types because every read would generate a + -- lot of instructions, so we keep using the manipulation + -- routines of the runtime for them. elsif Csiz mod System_Storage_Unit = 0 and then Is_Composite_Type (Ctyp) |