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Re: 2 Pass Binder

• Posted by Roderick Jackson <rjackson at CSIWEB.COM> Aug 17, 1999
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Bernie Ryan wrote:

>Rob:
>    Why not on the FIRST PASS of bind, scan the source and build a symbol
>    table that contains
>    1: any time a constant or variable is used
>    2: any time a function is used
>    3: any time a procedure is used
>    The final result is symbol table containing a list of each item used.
>    The next pass you do the real bind and anything that is not in the
>    the symbol table is thrown away.

Because that wouldn't work with routine_id(). If you have several
routines that are ONLY accessed via call_func/proc, there's a
good chance you'll throw away necessary code.

Sure, if routine_id is always given a literal as a parameter, no
problem; but when you have a any sort of variable passed in, this
method won't work.


Rod