function calls

[Michael Meissner]

In article <14274 at lambda.UUCP> jlg at lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
|From article <MEISSNER.90Mar16103226 at curley.osf.org>, by
|meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner): 
|> [...]
|> The MIPS compilers also have a -O3 option which does global register
|> allocation.  Here is an fragment of the man page from a Decstation:
|> [...]
|
|Great!  Now if this ability were widespread in the _real_world_ (or,
|the rest of the real world - for those of you who consider MIPS to
|be real :-), then there would be much less waste in the procedure
|interface.  Of course, once you have this capability, you would also
|want an 'inline' keyword on procedure declarations, etc..

The next revision of the MIPS compilers is supposed to have -O4, which
does automatic inlining as well.  It hasn't propigated through DEC
yet...
Michael Meissner	email: meissner at osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
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