Re: [LTO] Flattening memory expressions?

[Sebastian Pop <sebastian dot pop at cri dot ensmp dot fr>]

Diego Novillo wrote:
> Richard Henderson wrote on 06/08/06 16:36:
> 
> > As folks have pointed out down-thread wrt multi-dimensional arrays,
> > I think this is a rather poor idea.  Both for components and arrays.
> > 
> Yeah, multi-dimensional arrays are a problem.  I'm not sure I see the
> flattening of components as a problem.  Because we would need to take
> the address of inner fields?
> 
> > There are other options for this besides stack machine.
> > 
> Cool.  What would those be?

A list of subscripts.  So you'd have ARRAY_REF : ID (VAL^+)

You store the dimension of the array in its type, and then you know
that you have to read that number of values or identifiers from the
bytecode.

Sebastian