RFC: Java inliner

Mon Jul 1 11:56:00 GMT 2002

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mark Mitchell writes:
> > 
> > The current inliner already has mechanisms for language-specific
> > extensions. If those can be used, or it can be easily extended so that
> > they can be used, great.
>> Well I tried, I really did. But the inliner we have at the moment
> uses C-private tree nodes to such an extent that I think it isn't
> possible without totally messing up the code. I could replace every
> occurrence of these nodes with macros or function pointers, but the
> result would not be pretty. The real answer in the long term is, of
> course, SIMPLE.

Is the java inliner usable in languages other than java (IE could we 
replace the current c-inliner with your java inliner)?
Or did you do the same thing, and create java specific nodes?
>> Andrew.
>>