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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: inline & Zortech compiler
Message-ID: <1928@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 89 18:43:52 GMT
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In article <3390@nunki.usc.edu> jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English) writes:
>Not inlining loops and switches makes sense, but why not
>if statements?
>What are the technical problems with inlining if's? 

To inline if's, it's necessary to convert them to equivalent expressions
involving ?:, && and || operators. (The idea is to convert the entire
function to one expression.) In fact, I asked Bjarne and he said that this
was exactly what cfront did. However, I have not gotten around yet to
putting in the code to do this, hence it doesn't inline if's just yet.