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Matthew Fluet fluet@CS.Cornell.EDU
Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:48:24 -0500 (EST)


> > If you do, bear in mind that that will be a new loop where a signal
> > limit check will be inserted.
> 
> No.  This is one loop that can't have a signal limit check -- a
> pointer array must be completely filled in or the gc will not be able
> to trace it.

Well, I thought that would be the case.  The point then is that we need to
somehow distinguish this loop from other loops and suppress limit check
insertion.  (E.g., in the x86-codegen, this just looks like any other
loop; I don't do anything special with it.)