Changeset d1ee9ec

Timestamp:

Jul 23, 2020, 2:43:33 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Andrew Beach <ajbeach@…>

Branches:

ADT, arm-eh, ast-experimental, enum, forall-pointer-decay, jacob/cs343-translation, master, new-ast, new-ast-unique-expr, pthread-emulation, qualifiedEnum

Children:

c408483

Parents:

923d25a

Message:

Added some notes about the copy functions to the porting document.

File:

• src/AST/porting.md (modified) (1 diff)

src/AST/porting.md

@@ -47 +47 @@
       template<typename node_t>
       friend node_t * mutate(const node_t * node);
+      template<typename node_t>
+      friend node_t * shallowCopy(const node_t * node);
+    or equilant.
+* You should use the `mutate` function where possible as it avoids extra copies.
+  * If you must copy use `shallowCopy` or `deepCopy` as required.
 
 All leaves of the `Node` inheritance tree are now declared `final`