This patch adds a lang hook for defining a struct/RECORD_TYPE
“as if” it had appeared directly in the source code. It follows
the similar existing hook for enums.
It's the caller's responsibility to create the fields
(as FIELD_DECLs) but the hook's responsibility to create
and declare the associated RECORD_TYPE.
For now the hook is hard-coded to do the equivalent of:
typedef struct NAME { FIELDS } NAME;
but this could be controlled by an extra parameter if some callers
want a different behaviour in future.
The motivating use case is to allow the long list of struct
definitions in arm_neon.h to be provided by the compiler,
which in turn unblocks various arm_neon.h optimisations.
gcc/
* langhooks.h (lang_hooks_for_types::simulate_record_decl): New hook.
* langhooks-def.h (lhd_simulate_record_decl): Declare.
(LANG_HOOKS_SIMULATE_RECORD_DECL): Define.
(LANG_HOOKS_FOR_TYPES_INITIALIZER): Include it.
* langhooks.c (lhd_simulate_record_decl): New function.