> If this were being done at the level of register allocation, why would > one need a user visible option? 'Just' rearrange the register file to look > like a set of single bit registers overlaid on a more conventional register > file. As someone pointed out, this might change semantics (read: screw up ;-) of the * and & operators: &somebool, though it would be placed into memory, wouldn't deserve an address, since most[1] architechures aren't bit- adressable.
Samuel Lauber [1] I said ``some'', not ``all'', because the TMS340x0 port is. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze
