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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:22:17 -0400
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> Why not just get the compiler to generate the assembly language
> for you.

My heart wasn't into it.

> It is interesting that the current compiler lets you do it (my old
> BSD system won't swallow it) but I can't see any attempt to actually
> execute any code on the stack.

Yeah, I'm running the ast-optimiser-branch gcc by default, and it does
use trampolines.  I think it's quasi- based on gcc 3.0.

Before I go on another wild goose chase, what version specifically
do you mean by "current"?