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Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs



On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 07:18:24PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
 > David Holland skrev den 2015-06-08 19:06:
 > >On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:15:15PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
 > >  >> printfing from the back of the front end is definitely "totally wrong
 > >  >> in other ways that need to be rectified first" :(
 > >  > Hm, I may be missing something, but what is wrong?
 > >  > Where should you print it out otherwise?
 > >
 > >I would say the debug information ought to be attached to the
 > >representation nodes it describes as it moves through the backend;
 > >otherwise it's easily upset by fairly simple transformations.
 >
 > It's simpler than that :-)
 > 
 > Debug info for all data declarations etc are printed out when found,
 > so are the declarations themselves.  No reason to keep them.

...except perhaps for, say, removing unused static variables :-)

 > Debug info for code follows the code itself. This is necessary, since
 > the debug info must follow the reference to a place in the code stream,
 > otherwise the debug info might refer to a label that is optimized away
 > which is not acceptable by the assembler :-)

Ok, never mind then; was responding to what was posted rather than
what actually exists...

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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