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Re: "deferred strings" in varasm.c


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~


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