Re: Proposal: changing representation of memory references

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:27:12PM +0200, Zdenek Dvorak wrote:
> 3) making this offset into an index, i.e, having
>    base: &a, indices: (step:1, value: n)
> 
> Out of these, I like 3) the most, although it might be fairly expensive
> memory-wise (any idea how common the variable offsets are?)

Hmm.  I suppose that would work, and since one can have as
many indicies as needed, one can continue to represent nested
variable-displacement component_refs.



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