> The compiler already supports keeping records in registers under the same > conditions, but only up to a certain size (two native registers) and only > using the > same layout as they would have in memory (so no explicit splitting out fields > into separate registers).
Using record fields as independent variables if appropriate could be a nice very high-level optimization strategy (AFAIK, GNU C does this easily). With X64 architecture and others that have many registers this seems to make a lot of sense, but it also would allow to allocate seldom used fields ion the stack. -Michael _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
