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Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs



Oops, s/epilogue/prologue/ in below

On 8 June 2015 at 15:15, David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 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...
>
> --
> David A. Holland
> dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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