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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: bizarre instructions
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Date: 21 Feb 91 18:44:26 GMT
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How about this?  A language in which it is possible to write functions
in assembler and have them inlined automatically, and to have the
compiler smart enough to do dataflow analysis on the resultant code and
such.  Possibly some syntax close to what PCC uses could be used inside
such functions.  I would imagine that GCC is close to capable of doing
this if it isn't already. The minor problem of efficient multi-variable
returns might need to be worked out.

Then, the only stumbling block would be the flexible syntax for
procedure calls, which could be addressed with a preprocessor rather
than an entire language.

Am I missing something here, or is this problem really as easy to
solve as it seems?             -- Darren

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