Re: [cc65] Register variables

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From: Marko Mäkelä (msmakela_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 1999-07-19 09:17:24 

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:

> To be really sure, a register variable that has its address taken must not go
> into a register (gcc is doing it this way). Unfortunately, the cc65 parser is
> too stupid to do things like that (when it sees the address operator, the code
> to put the variable into zero page storage has already been generated, and
> there is no way back).

Why not?  The optimization routines (which work at the assembly language
level) could be signalled to make a register variable of a function a
non-register one.  Only the initialization and the clean-up code would
need patching, I think.

> If no one has a better idea, my solution will probably be to disable register
> variables by default.

Your idea sounds good.

	Marko

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