Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> We don't have a problem WRT register preservation, the problem arises >> due to register re-using. > Ah! [a light goes on over Piers's head]. >>> Or am I missing something fundamental? >> I don't know ;) > I was. Hmm... bugger. So, unless we make the register allocator solve > the halting problem, the rule becomes "If you're playing silly beggars > with continuations and you're expecting to get at something in a > 'surprising' way, stuff it in a lexical or we guarantee that you will be > anally violated by an enraged waterbuffalo that's just sick to death of > non-determinism"? This would make quite a fine explanation in the docs, except that's a bit unclear about "stuff *it*". The waterbuffalo is concerned of preserved *temporary* variables too. leo
