Subj : unbaja
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 11:30 pm

  Re: unbaja
  By: Angus McLeod to Deuce on Sun Sep 11 2005 23:10:00

 >  > it'd be easy enough to add a check an external file and a CRC
 >  > calculation (crc32 is localted in ../smblib) into the default case...
 >  > then probobly hold matches (and negative matches) in memory.
 > 
 > Uh, "negative matches"?  Do you mean flagging variables that *aren't* in
 > the lookup table (internal or external) so as to prevent repeating the
 > lookup?
 > 
 >  > Actually, doing the file lookup during the STR and INT declarations would
 >  > the most sense... then just have the default case search through matched 
 >  > before it uses a var_* format.
 > 
 > What about building a short symbol table for variables as you encounter
 > them.  When you find a new variable, you do a lookup for the name, and if
 > you don't find it, you create a name using var_<crc>.  This name gets
 > stuck into the short symbol table.  If you encounter the variable again,
 > you use the name found in the short symbol table (no internal or external
 > lookup needed).

Yeah... that's what I meant... since the first time you entounter them will be
in a declaration.

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