Re: [Tinycc-devel] Proposal for handling alloca(). Anyone see a problem with it?

[Philippe Ribet]

David A. Wheeler wrote:

> Daniel Glöckner:
>  
>
> > To save some stack space, we could do locSaved=loc
> > when a new block is parsed and set locMin=min(loc,locSaved) at the end
> > of the block. Then in the function epilog we patch the value of locMin
> > into the prolog.
> >    
>
> Reusing stack space from different sub-blocks would be nice.  It's probably not 
> even that hard to make better use of stack space, though I haven't looked.
>
>  
My personal point of view is that any project should keep the initial 
spirit who guided the initial design. It's necessary in order to be 
coherent, else the project turns into something very different.

The initial goal of tcc is to be very fast and very small. Adding 
optimiser capabilities will make the code bigger, harder to understand 
and maintain, tcc runing slower... I think it will be another project.

For optimising purpose, why not starting a new branch or a new fork? tccO?

Just my 2 cents,

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Philippe Ribet



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