Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: "interprocedural analysis useless for code optmization"
Message-ID: <1988Oct14.171322.2003@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9988@cup.portal.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 88 17:13:22 GMT

In article <9988@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com writes:
>At least for Pascal programs, the conclusion that not only is interprocedural
>analysis pretty much useless for real programs, but "ALIAS information, which
>is the most difficult to compute algorithmically, turns out to be the least
>useful..."  ...Perhaps the case is different for C programs...

C is a very different situation because of all the pointers running around.
Pascal's aliasing issues are insignificant by comparison.
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