On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:59:52AM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:

> > I expected to see an ex-scmp in there. Is the cmp ever compiled to ops?
> 
> yes, but it's freed in S_simplify_sort, called by ck_sort during optree
> construction, i.e. before the peephole optimizer is called.

Aha. This was what I was wondering, and also why the departure from perl's
usual policy of not free-ing ops during optimisation.

> Concise shows the DESC flag on the sort op that indicates this is a reverse
> sort.

and there are also NUM and now REVERSE (IIRC)

Nicholas Clark

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