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From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
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In-Reply-To: <20020720203540.GA22352@daikokuya.co.uk>; from neil@daikokuya.co.uk on Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:35:40PM +0100
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:35:40PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> With appropriate use of a language hook or two, it should be possible
> to do it on the front-end representation.  I suspect this is ideal in
> general, because different languages have different constraints on what
> is and is not possible in various situations, that tends to get lost
> after lowering.

I'm not fond of the idea.  If we've lost so much in the lowering
that we cannnot do decent inlining, then we've mis-targeted the
intermediate language.


r~