Re: Making a partial C compiler

> This 'dead code' has a good chance of being thrown out by the optimizer.


Yes thats correct. If you make some conditional code around it, the
compiler has a harder time to see if the code is in use or not (based
on a dummy condition which always goes in one direction). Ofcourse it
would require a bit experimentation and knowledge of how the compiler
optimizes.


>> 3. Rearranging of code so if you got 3 blocks of statements A, B, C you
can
> > do:
> > 4. Dynamic "linking" by making exact function calls to be resolved at
> > runtime by using function pointers.
>
> I can imagine that both measures would be quite detrimental to the
> program's performance as it requires excessive branching.


Yes it would decrease performance but I find it acceptable to a
certain level. What I want is to produce code bloat as much as
allowed.


-- John

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