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From: hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: "interprocedural analysis useless for code optmization"
Summary: Not so.
Message-ID: <9483@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 17:59:06 GMT
References: <9988@cup.portal.com> <29285@think.UUCP>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <29285@think.UUCP>, barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> In article <9988@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com writes:
[Stuff as to frequency of aliases being basically a function of
 the language that code is written in...]

I have references as to frequency of aliases (I can send copies if you're
interested).  Basically, C is truly a mess (unless you use register a whole
lot), but any language with arrays, call-by-address (e.g., Pascal VARs),
etc. has these problems.  The extent to which they impact code quality
depends mostly on what the code does (algorithm) and what the target machine
can do, not on the language in which it is written.

							-hankd