Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:27004 comp.lang.misc:4504 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!osf!meissner From: meissner@osf.osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: function calls Message-ID: <5191@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Date: 17 Mar 90 16:38:38 GMT References: <14274@lambda.UUCP> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Reply-To: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 21 In article <14274@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes: |From article , by |meissner@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@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so