[m-dev.] Re: Problem with region frame slots

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Quan Phan wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:49:04PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Quan,
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Quan Phan wrote:
>>
>>> I send this email to developer's list so that everyone can involve
>>> (especially Julien :) ).
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:44:29PM +1000, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
>>>> On 06-Aug-2007, Quan Phan <quan.phan at cs.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>>>>>> However, I cannot reproduce the .c file and the HLDS dump you sent me.
>>>>>> Compiling test.m in grade asm_fast.gc.rbmm does not introduce any use of
>>>>>> regions for me. Do you know what could be causing that?
>>>>
>>>>> I compile as follows:
>>>>> $thismmc/lmc --use-regions --region-analysis --dump-hlds=240 test.m
>>>>>
>>>>> How did you compile it?
>>>>
>>>> In grade asm_fast.gc.rbmm, which sets --use-regions but not
>>>> --region-analysis.
>>>> Is there any point in --use-regions without --region-analysis? I don't
>>>> think
>>>> so,
>>> I also think no.
>>>
>>>> which means that --use-regions should imply --region-analysis, or that
>>>> --region-analysis should be REPLACED by --use-regions.
>>> One reason for the existence of the two may be to use --region-analysis
>>> without --use-regions to dump the hlds with region annotations.
>>
>> That was the reason before the .rbmm grades were added.
>>
>>> But as far as I understand, I think only --use-regions is enough. That
>>> means I am for the latter.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> We can probably get rid of `--region-analysis'.  It dates your (Quan's)
>> original addition of the region analysis.  I added --use-regions because
>> it correspond more closely to the macro name, MR_USE_REGIONS, used to
>> enable region support.
>
> So we agree to use just --use-regions, don't we? Can I carry out that change?

Certainly.

Julien.
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