confusion about RTL

[Alan Lehotsky]

At 6:30 AM -0500 12/6/01, Richard Kenner wrote:

>Trees are machine-independent.  RTL is machine-dependent.  The *representation*
>of RTL operations is machine-independent.

	That's not even completely true, as trees contain size information expressed in target machine bit sizes.
	If the target machine has 16 bit ints, it will have a different tree than a machine with 32 bit ints.

	It is true that trees are largely machine-independent AND have the same "shape" on any machine....
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