[Ecls-list] Megapatches ahead

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2010 22:00:45 +0200
> Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Those functions are only used when the type of the arguments or of the
> > output is not known or it does not match any of the C integer and
> floating
> > point types.
> >
> > For example in the code below ECL unboxes the value of X and does all
> other
> > operations in floating point and integer arithmetics.
> [...]
>
> This is great to know, thanks :)
>

But do not be too optimistic: right now the problem is that the compiler
does not allow for simple type propagation due to the limited intermediate
representation. That is one of the things I am trying to solve.

Juanjo

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