Hi everyone,
This is an idea that sprung to mind while looking at fixing an unrelated
bug, and that's to do with nested functions.
In situations where a nested function has no parameters, is it feasible
and beneficial to programmatically merge it into the main procedure in
some circumstances (it wouldn't be possible if the nested routine has
inline assembly language because RET won't behave the same, for
example), using jumps to navigate to, from and around it? I know for one
thing it will possibly free up a register in some calculations because
it doesn't have to pass the base pointer (e.g. RBP) as a hidden parameter.
On a similar topic, one person mentioned that GCC and other compilers
sometimes 'outline' conditional branches by effectively moving the
branch into a nested procedure in order to help with caching.by giving
the main procedure a smaller memory footprint.
Might this be something worth researching?
Gareth aka. Kit
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