On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Gabriel Michael
Black<[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]>:
>> - Pass by reference operands should also just be flagged as errors,
>> since there's no way to know if the operand is read, written, or both.
>
> It's more difficult than that, though, since it's not possible as far as I
> know to tell when an operand is passed as reference without a prototype.

Good point... if we wanted to be completely safe we'd either have to
require a prototype to be in scope or forbid using instruction
operands directly as function call operands altogether.

Steve
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