Changes in src/SynTree/AddressExpr.cc [c5e3208:906e24d]

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• src/SynTree/AddressExpr.cc (modified) (1 diff)

src/SynTree/AddressExpr.cc

@@ -18 +18 @@
 #include "Common/utility.h"
 
-// Address expressions are typed based on the following inference rules:
-//    E : lvalue T  &..& (n references)
-//   &E :        T *&..& (n references)
-//
-//    E : T  &..&        (m references)
-//   &E : T *&..&        (m-1 references)
-//
-// That is, lvalues becomes
-
-namespace {
-        Type * addrType( Type * type ) {
-                if ( ReferenceType * refType = dynamic_cast< ReferenceType * >( type ) ) {
-                        return new ReferenceType( refType->get_qualifiers(), addrType( refType->get_base() ) );
-                } else {
-                        return new PointerType( Type::Qualifiers(), type->clone() );
-                }
-        }
-}
-
 AddressExpr::AddressExpr( Expression *arg, Expression *_aname ) : Expression( _aname ), arg( arg ) {
         if ( arg->has_result() ) {
-                if ( arg->get_result()->get_lvalue() ) {
-                        // lvalue, retains all layers of reference and gains a pointer inside the references
-                        set_result( addrType( arg->get_result() ) );
-                } else {
-                        // taking address of non-lvalue -- must be a reference, loses one layer of reference
-                        ReferenceType * refType = safe_dynamic_cast< ReferenceType * >( arg->get_result() );
-                        set_result( addrType( refType->get_base() ) );
-                }
-                // result of & is never an lvalue
-                get_result()->set_lvalue( false );
+                set_result( new PointerType( Type::Qualifiers(), arg->get_result()->clone() ) );
         }
 }