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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: 'register' variables and other goodies (was Re: Common subexpression optimization)
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Date: 7 Feb 90 15:46:03 GMT
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>People *have* built interprocedural flow analysers for Pascal compilers.
>People have even done it for Fortran, complete with separate compilation.
>Even commercial people (as opposed to research).
>Other people even use such compilers.

Saying that there exist such compilers (and we all know many implementations
of Pascal *do* support separate compilation) is not the same as saying it
is "not a problem for Pascal".