PhobosWatch: manifest => enum

[Derek Parnell]

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:59:54 +0100, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:

> 	Right. Replace "const" by "invariant" in my comment and the main
> point still stands: couldn't the compiler determine automatically if
> we take the address of an invariant variable and allocate memory for
> it or not based on that? This would remove the need for a special
> keyword/syntax for manifest constants: just declare them as
> "invariant" and let the compiler do the work.

In order to do that, won't the compiler need to have access to all the
source code for the application? If so, how can the compiler do it when
given some source code and some object code to build the application?

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Derek Parnell
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