Rob Shearman : widl: Only duplicate a type if absolutely necessary.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Module: wine
Branch: master
Commit: 8f87eddd399127192bed252c182c5fda02ce8328
URL:    http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=8f87eddd399127192bed252c18...

Author: Rob Shearman 
Date:   Sat Feb 14 18:11:26 2009 +0000

widl: Only duplicate a type if absolutely necessary.

Document how much of hack duplicating a type in order to change its
pointer type is.

---

tools/widl/parser.y |   16 +++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/widl/parser.y b/tools/widl/parser.y
index d5260c1..168f555 100644
--- a/tools/widl/parser.y
+++ b/tools/widl/parser.y
@@ -1446,9 +1446,19 @@ static void set_type(var_t *v, decl_spec_t *decl_spec, const declarator_t *decl,
     }
     if (ptr && is_ptr(ptr) && (ptr_attr || top))
     {
-      /* duplicate type to avoid changing original type */
-      *pt = duptype(*pt, 1);
-      (*pt)->type = ptr_attr ? ptr_attr : RPC_FC_RP;
+      if (!ptr_attr)
+        ptr_attr = RPC_FC_RP;
+      if (ptr_attr != (*pt)->type)
+      {
+        /* create new type to avoid changing original type */
+        /* FIXME: this is a horrible hack - we might be changing the pointer
+         * type of an alias here, so we also need corresponding hacks in
+         * get_pointer_fc to handle this. The type of pointer that the type
+         * ends up having is context sensitive and so we shouldn't be
+         * setting it here, but rather determining it when it is used. */
+        *pt = duptype(*pt, 1);
+        (*pt)->type = ptr_attr;
+      }
     }
     else if (ptr_attr)
        error_loc("%s: pointer attribute applied to non-pointer type\n", v->name);