The end goal was to fix erroneous non-constant initializer errors for
the following (ie, nested initializer blocks):
typedef struct { int x; int y; } Point;
typedef struct { int width; int height; } Extent;
typedef struct Rect_s { Point offset; Extent extent; } Rect;
Rect makeRect (int xpos, int ypos, int xlen, int ylen)
{
Rect rect = {{xpos, ypos}, {xlen, ylen}};
return rect;
}
However, it turned out that nested initializer blocks for local
variables did not work at all in that the relocations were lost because
fake defs were being created for the generated instructions.
Thus, instead of creating fake defs, simply record the offset relative
to the base def, the type, and the basic type initializer expression,
then generate instructions that all refer to the correct def but with a
relative offset.
Other than using the new element system, static initializers are largely
unaffected.
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