Re: The quest for the optimal calling convention; a model for specifying multiple calling conventions (longish)

Antti Sykari <jsykari@kosh.hut.fi>
25 Jan 2003 00:47:15 -0500

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From: Antti Sykari <jsykari@kosh.hut.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 Jan 2003 00:47:15 -0500
Organization: Sonera corp Internet services
References: 03-01-065 03-01-070
Keywords: design, performance
Posted-Date: 25 Jan 2003 00:47:15 EST

fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:


> Making arguments read-only is not sufficient to ensure that
> passing variables by reference or by value will be completely
> transparent to the user. ...


I can't think of a better solution than to enforce a mindset that any
parameter might be passed by reference and the programmer must not
rely on any assumptions on the passing method. If reference semantics
are desired, a pointer should be used. This seems more reasonable
than always enforcing a pass-by-value policy.


-Antti
[Gee, we're reinventing Fortran. -John]


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