On Dec 1, 2007 5:00 PM, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clearly > > x + 1 > > is ambiguous .. incrementing the pointer? or the value it points to?
What if we made incrementing the pointer a separate felix function? It'd be clearer, and I doubt it'd be needed much. > which means all functions -- both Felix and C primitives -- would use > pass by value. This will work fine.. but it is potentially inefficient > because it hides the variable being incremented, introducing an > aliasing problem.. it isn't clear C++ compilers such as gcc can > unravel this.. > > var x = 1; > ++x; // generates ++*&x > > but it has to unravel immediately to > > ++x > > to allow some optimisations to work. Could we do that in the c++ codegen, or would that need dataflow analysis? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
