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Author Re: Bounds Check Overhead
Rich Townsend

2006-05-26, 7:04 pm

Richard Maine wrote:
> Rich Townsend <rhdt@barVOIDtol.udel.edu> wrote:
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> No. Storage is not a useful distinction here. Just not a relevant
> concept at all. In practice, all arguments have storage, so it is not a
> difference in practice. The standard doesn't much talk about storage in
> this context, so it isn't a difference in the abstract either. There is
> storage association, but that isn't much related. I'm not quite sure
> where you are headed with that concept, but I don't think it is in teh
> right direction.
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> The difference is in whether or not it has to be definable... i.e. be a
> variable... or whether it could be an expression.
>


I was more thinking of the notion that PARAMETERS don't have storage -- but then
again, are they then just hardwired into the code?
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