SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR

[Diego Novillo]

On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> Florian> The operator approach has the disadvantage that one day,
> Florian> there might be a front end which requires detailed overflow
> Florian> checking in integer calculations.
> 
> Something to know about Java is that how FP operations are implemented
> depends on the context.  In a `strictfp' context certain rules must be
> followed.  In other contexts, the rules are more lenient and we can do
> more optimizations.  This might matter most for RTL generation; I
> don't know.
> 
If it matters for RTL generation, then we will need to handle it
when generating li-trees.  I don't know Java well enough, maybe
this can be modelled with some sort of scope nodes?

Diego.