behaviour of {-# NOINLINE #-} in where clauses

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Duncan,

Monday, August 14, 2006, 2:33:31 AM, you wrote:

> Reversing the test doesn't help because either way ghc turns it into:

> case thing of
>   _DEFAULT ->
>   4096 ->

to be exact, ghc passes code for default case separately from code for
other cases. look at emitSwitch procedure to know why it's required

> and from that generates CMM:

> if (thing != 4096) goto much_later;
> ...
> much_later:
> ...

can't you use 'if' expressions?

> Even so, I kind of wish there were a stage between STG and CMM that
> showed the imperative model of STG with linear layout, control flow and
> notes to indicate thunk/closure allocations. I expect most of my problem
> is that I do not understand the STG evaluation model sufficiently well
> to see how it maps to basic blocks, jumps/calls etc.

i once tried to understood STG->CMM code generation. it's all in
codeGen directory of ghc sources. and now i think that STG is pretty
low-level imperative language, not harder than C for example. i even
had the idea to write STG->C translator that generates efficient code.
on the other side, jhc already contains pretty the same thing (John
claims that jhc's internal language is close to STG)


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com