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Re: Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:51:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
- References: <wvllm86k1m1.fsf@prospero.cambridge.redhat.com> <20020720203540.GA22352@daikokuya.co.uk>
On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:35:40PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> With appropriate use of a language hook or two, it should be possible
> to do it on the front-end representation. I suspect this is ideal in
> general, because different languages have different constraints on what
> is and is not possible in various situations, that tends to get lost
> after lowering.
I'm not fond of the idea. If we've lost so much in the lowering
that we cannnot do decent inlining, then we've mis-targeted the
intermediate language.
r~