Re: Suggested improvement to gcc

[Ken Cline]

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Sven N. Thommesen wrote:

> It is of course possible to have callers pass 'self' as a
> formal argument, but in models where this need comes up
> that could be a bother.

Another alternative (for serial systems) would be to
"register" self before each method call.  Not very
viable either unless all method calls are passed thru
something like `perform:::'.  Or we customize the
precompiler to add the necessary hooks into the code
(like for a debugger)? =;-)

Ken.

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