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Re: no_new_pseudos
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "Kenneth Zadeck" <zadeck at naturalbridge dot com>, "Richard Kenner" <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn at artimi dot com, dje at watson dot ibm dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, iant at google dot com, rsandifo at nildram dot co dot uk, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:43:40 -0300
- Subject: Re: no_new_pseudos
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On Jul 9, 2007, "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since flow was so broken, we
> could not, we added the hack no_new_pseudos get around that problem.
> Now we are saying it is a nice abstraction but I am saying this
> abstraction should never have happened in the first place.
You're criticizing the implementation behind the abstraction, not the
abstraction per se. I agree with the criticism. That we can fix the
implementation without changing the abstraction shows it's a good one.
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