[fpc-devel] Pure function development

[J. Gareth Moreton]

So are you officially rejecting pure functions and my future work on 
them in this form?

Gareth aka. Kit

On 29/04/2020 21:40, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 29/04/2020 22:08, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
>> Constant propagation is only really beneficial for inline functions,
> That is incorrect.
>
>> although there is some crossover with pure functions. I was more meaning
>> a system of tracking and storing these constants, or rather how they
>> manipulate variables throughout a pure function.
> That is exactly what -Ooconstprop does, although (as mentioned before),
> to a quite limited extent. It doesn't extract the constants from the
> nodes, but replaces variables (load nodes) with the constant nodes that
> were assigned to them earlier, and then at the end runs the simplify
> pass over the resulting node tree. The simplify pass already contains
> all support for merging expressions involving only constant nodes into
> single constants, so it has no need for storing the constant data in a
> separate structure and then duplicate all the constant evaluations for
> that extra structure.
>
>
> Jonas
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