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From: mmcg@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Mike McGaughey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: low level optimization
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Date: 29 Apr 91 03:58:53 GMT
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jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

>the MIPS C compiler, which does IM analysis in a non-standard way
>by requiring dependent compilation.

No it doesnt.

Even with full MIPS IM optimisation, compilation order is independent
(it creates .u files; if you apply their .u-to-symbolic translator to
them, you'll find that they look suspiciously like RTL).

Mike.
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