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Re: Clarifications required

To: Rajalakshmi Iyer <rajiyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Clarifications required
From: Chandrasekhar Murthy <murthy@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:49:40 -0800
Cc: pro64-support@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Rajalakshmi Iyer wrote:
> 
> We are using the SGI Pro64 compiler version 0.01.0-12 and are mainly
> interested in the intermediate representation produced by the compiler.
> 
> We need certain clarifications :
> a)      There are certain function calls eg. strlen which have been made
> intrinsic and the compiler automatically typecasts them from size_t to int.
> Is there any option to make sure that the return value of such functions is
> not automatically type-casted.

You can specify -fno-builtin on the commandline to suppress
handling of these functions as builtins.

> b)      We need access to column number information. We are not able to get
> column number information. The column number field always returns 0. Is
> there any specific reason why the column number info is not provided for
> nodes other than statement nodes ?
> 

Could you provide a small example of this.

> Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
> Rajalakshmi. Iyer
> Member of Technical Staff
> Persistent Systems.

Murthy

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