Re: Compiler Recommendations

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:44:58, John Chambers <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> I mean, has anyone *ever* written a compiler (or linker) that assigns 
> locations as a function of the variable's name?  Hmmmm again ... I'll 
> have to find an excuse to do something just like that.   The  problem 
> might be successfully justifying it to others. 

Did I miss something?  I don't think that was the point of the code. 
There are no locations assigned because of the variable name.  It 
takes the address of i, and increments it by one word (size of address 
allocation based on your arch, 4bytes/32bits or 8bytes/64bits, etc). 
The address of j doesn't need to be assigned incrementally (ie. the 
next word).  Perhaps even the allocation is done on architectures 
where stacks/heaps grow in opposite directions, and subtracting the 
latter address from the former will actually really mess you up! 
These are just random thoughts though, and I don't have a specific 
example in mind.  Jerry Feldman is an old sage and provided a personal 
experience that I thought was a perfect example where someone has 
assumed just that scenario!  I still am young and need to acquire a 
bunch of those "old sage" personal examples.  As of right now, I got 
none :-) 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"Know something about everything and everything about something." 

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