[fpc-devel] [Suggestion] Enumeration range-check intrinsic

[Ben Grasset]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 3:47 PM Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
wrote:

> No doubt, but this will lead to a bloated binary. I want less code (both
> source and assembler), not more.
>

Well, it would be one instantiation per unique type it was used on.

So if you had five hand-written helper functions for different types, and
replaced all of them with the use of a single generic function, you'd still
end up with just five functions worth of assembler code (i.e. the same
amount you had to begin with.)
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