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Subject: Argument about local variable allocation
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Date: 28 Feb 90 00:04:22 GMT
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There seems to be an argument under way in info-gcc about what kinds
of variable allocation strategies are legitimate for a C compiler to use.

Please stop this argument.  It does not help me decide what to
implement.  It is also not very useful for the other readers; even
assuming they want to know the answer to this question, the low
signal-to-noise ratio in such an argument makes it a bad way of
informing them.

In the future, if you see something which GCC does which might perhaps
be suboptimal, please report it to bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu.  That is
where all suggestions should be sent--not to info-gcc or (aka gnu.gcc).
I appreciate suggestions, but I would prefer if they were sent in a
fashion that did not impose on all the users.

If someone else makes a suggestion, please don't send your opinion of
the suggestion to either of the mailing lists.  Please leave it to me
to decide whether I would like to use the suggestion.