[LLVMdev] Nested functions

[Vikram S. Adve]

On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Vladimir Merzliakov wrote:

>> As an optimization for shallow nested functions (e.g., 3 levels or 
>> less), it seems to me you could just avoid the stack walking entirely 
>> and add $k-1$ arguments to each function at level $k$, i.e., at most 
>> 2 arguments in all.  This may even be an easy first implementation.
>
> I use this method with filtering unused in nested function args and 
> local vars
> in my YAFL frontend (not finished :(( - at this moment generate LLVM 
> bytecode but doesn't have all runtime suport code writed)

So do you mean you pass static links for parent function stack frames 
as arguments?  How do you generate them?

--Vikram
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