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| From: | Paul F. Dietz |
| Subject: | Re: Type propagation (was Re: [Gcl-devel] New random tester failures) |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:55:31 -0600 |
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Camm Maguire wrote:
Another thing we need to decide is if there is any benefit to char and short C variables. I'm inclined to think not, but have the opposite opinion on unsigned fixnum and long long.
They could save some stack space, if you have several and they pack
together. Otherwise, I suspect they don't save much. They might be
more useful in structure fields with declared types.
Paul
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