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From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Ada to C translator
Date: 1997/02/17
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Date: 1997-02-17T00:00:00+00:00
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kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

>fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:
>>kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
>>>That's true, but it's not a hard optimization to only handle variables
>>>that are actually *used* in the inner subprogram in a special way (or to
>>>special-case a one-element structure).  If a variable is used in an
>>>inner subprogram, it probably has to be in memory anyway.
>>
>>If it's so easy, how come gcc doesn't do it?   ;-)
>
>It does.

Oh, right you are.  My apologies.

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