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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: cfront and inline (LONG) (Re: Why doesn't inline always work?)
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Date: 10 Mar 90 22:47:10 GMT
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In article <5756@videovax.tv.tek.com> bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey) writes:
>In article <5041@odin.SGI.COM> shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro) writes:
>> The problem is that in order to perform inlining, cfront turns the
>> function into a single expression (remember that the function needs to
>> return a result, so it needs to be an expression).
>
>The stuff in parentheses above just isn't true.

Harumph. Andy Koenig was kind enough to point out the error of my
statement.  It isn't that the expressions can't be rewritten - it's
that they cannot be rewritten easily.  In fact, it's rather
complicated.

Embarassing - a moment's thought would have let me figure that out for
myself.

Jon Shapiro