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authorXavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>1998-04-30 12:12:28 +0000
committerXavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>1998-04-30 12:12:28 +0000
commitbaa58a54a938a07810e2fa201448ea277da7dae1 (patch)
treee3f07040ed8a0f29ab4ba915177d7c5ae56c206a /bytecomp/lambda.mli
parentbdcbaa96025eb71f9aaeaef1573ca234b79fd846 (diff)
Ajout du let_kind Variable, pour aider les transformations ulterieures (e.g. propagation des constantes entieres dans Closure)
git-svn-id: http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/trunk@1944 f963ae5c-01c2-4b8c-9fe0-0dff7051ff02
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@@ -70,7 +70,16 @@ type structured_constant =
type function_kind = Curried | Tupled
-type let_kind = Strict | Alias | StrictOpt
+type let_kind = Strict | Alias | StrictOpt | Variable
+(* Meaning of kinds for let x = e in e':
+ Strict: e may have side-effets; always evaluate e first
+ (If e is a simple expression, e.g. a variable or constant,
+ we may still substitute e'[x/e].)
+ Alias: e is pure, we can substitute e'[x/e] if x has 0 or 1 occurrences
+ in e'
+ StrictOpt: e does not have side-effects, but depend on the store;
+ we can discard e if x does not appear in e'
+ Variable: the variable x is assigned later in e' *)
type shared_code = (int * int) list (* stack size -> code label *)