On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, that's up to the target maintainers to decide, maybe > -mno-nested-functions instead? Is -mno-nested-functions or -mno-nested-function-pointers too C-centric or GCC-centric? I don't know what wording would be more informative, but the functionality is available in Pascal, PL/I, Ada, GCC extensions and other languages. We're open to suggestions. > The compiler certainly can't figure out in _all_ cases - but it should be > able to handle > most of the cases (with LTO even more cases) ok, no? -mno-r11 is an assertion to the compiler that no function calls through pointers will require the static chain. However, I agree that the compiler conservatively should be able to figure out some cases itself, which would be a good enhancement. Thanks, David
