Re: Stack frames & static predecessors

"Diego Novillo" <dnovillo@acm.org>
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:24:09 -0400

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From: "Diego Novillo" <dnovillo@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:24:09 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 07-08-065 07-08-072
Keywords: Pascal, code
Posted-Date: 25 Aug 2007 14:32:48 EDT

On 8/24/07, Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> wrote:


> For this purpose, each scope contains a pointer called a
> "static link" (vice the dynamic link, which always points to the next
> lexically enclosing scope, regardless of its lexical nesting).


This is roughly the strategy used by GCC. Once the program is
converted into GIMPLE (GCC's high-level IL), the nesting of functions
is decomposed using the static chain idea. See the file
<src>/gcc/tree-nested.c in a post 4.0 release of GCC.
(http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/tree-nested.c?view=markup)


Also, you can ask GCC to dump the unnesting changes with -fdump-tree-nested.



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