Re: non trivial constant folding

sjmeyer@www.tdl.com (Steve Meyer)
18 Jan 2001 01:02:05 -0500

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From: sjmeyer@www.tdl.com (Steve Meyer)
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Date: 18 Jan 2001 01:02:05 -0500
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On 11 Jan 2001 12:25:30 -0500, Dennis Ritchie <dmr@bell-labs.com> wrote:


>Pretty much. This part wasn't explicitly iterative--it was done once,
>though I suppose the recursiveness and other accidents of coding
>got the routines called more than once on occasion.


Thanks for your reply. I read the following two sentences in the "Code
Generation" section (although expression node sorting is described in
"Expression Optimization" section first) as implying multiple passes:


"Throughout code generation, the expression optimizer is called
whenever delay or reorder change the expression tree.
This allows some special cases to be found that otherwise would
not be seen."


/Steve


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