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Re: RFC: Java inliner
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>,"gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,"java at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: RFC: Java inliner
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mark Mitchell writes:
> >
> > The current inliner already has mechanisms for language-specific
> > extensions. If those can be used, or it can be easily extended so that
> > they can be used, great.
>
> Well I tried, I really did. But the inliner we have at the moment
> uses C-private tree nodes to such an extent that I think it isn't
> possible without totally messing up the code. I could replace every
> occurrence of these nodes with macros or function pointers, but the
> result would not be pretty. The real answer in the long term is, of
> course, SIMPLE.
Is the java inliner usable in languages other than java (IE could we
replace the current c-inliner with your java inliner)?
Or did you do the same thing, and create java specific nodes?
>
> Andrew.
>
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