[fpc-devel] Progress on pure functions

[Sven Barth]

Am 16.12.2022 um 02:02 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel:
> The purity analysis process is very dependent on the node tree being 
> as clean as possible, and so depends on a fair few merge requests that 
> have not yet been approved.  I'm guessing Florian and Jonas and others 
> are somewhat busy, what with being December and all.
>
> - https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/merge_requests/232 - 
> strips unnecessary typeconv nodes (this helps a lot with constant 
> propagation).
> - https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/merge_requests/342 - 
> strips excess nothing nodes.

I didn't say that you shouldn't clean up the tree for your purity 
analysis (that sounds so wrong :P ), I simply asked what you meant with 
“share the same field” and if it is what I think it is then it's a bad 
idea and you shouldn't “share the same field” but introduce your own.

Regards,
Sven