[M3devel] cg.alloca

[Tony Hosking]

I don't see the reason for this.  If alloca is imported and invoked the gcc backend will happily replace it with inline code.


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On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:24 AM, Jay K wrote:

> 
> proposed diff attached
> 
>  - Jay
> 
> ----------------------------------------
>> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:28:26 +0000
>> Subject: [M3devel] cg.alloca
>> 
>> 
>> I'd like to make alloca a separate operation in m3cg.
>> Instead of a special function name that we check for.
>> More like the atomics.
>> I know how and can do it myself easily enough.
>> ok?
>> 
>> 
>> (and then I'll fix NT386)
>> 
>> 
>> - Jay
>> 
>> 
> 		 	   		  <cg_alloca.txt>