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Re: "deferred strings" in varasm.c
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:51:30 -0800
- Subject: Re: "deferred strings" in varasm.c
- References: <10111262344.AA05029@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:44:00PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I can't find a single comment stating in general what that htable is for.
IIRC, it's a holding point for string literals so that we
don't output them before we find out if they're actually
used. I.e. don't emit them before dead code is eliminated.
r~