Re: FWD:Re: refactoring

David Abrahams wrote:
> David Abrahams <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>>Joel de Guzman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>It is a fact that in C++, the line between the parser (front end)
>>>>and the compiler (backend) blurs. You need some smarts of the compiler
>>>>to reliably parse C++. The sizeof comes to mind, for example.
>>>>By "compiler", I mean the backend code generator.
>>>
>>>I don't think the backend really comes into play. 
>>
>>Yeah, I think Joel is using the term "backend" to mean "all the
>>semantic analysis," whereas most people mean "platform-specific code
>>generation and optimizations" when they say "backend."
> 
> 
> Err, sorry, I was wrong.  Yes, architecture does come into play, or it
> can. For example, 
> 
>   sizeof(int) == sizeof(long)
> 
> is a compile-time constant that can affect which of two class template
> specializations is chosen, completely altering the types in play, and
> also such things as (member function) overload sets.

Exactly what I had in mind when I said "The sizeof comes to mind,
for example.".

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