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Re: SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR

On Sun, 06 Jan 2002, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> To me, this doesn't look too different from RTL.  The only important
> difference appears to be the fact that arguments to function calls are
>
RTL doesn't have:

- Type information.
- Array information.
- Structured control-flow (particularly loops).
- Pointer information.

We may still need a higher-level RTL to migrate some of the RTL
optimizing passes that currently need intimate knowledge of the
underlying architecture.

Diego.
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