From: kamalpr@hp.com   
      
   On Mar 17, 7:22 am, lican  wrote:   
   > Does anyone know if it is possible to build basic blocks without   
   > generating IR, directly from an AST? I find it rather difficult. For   
   > simple cases why not, but the main problems are the nested loops and   
   > break / continue statements in loops. I ignore the gotos, I don't   
   > need them in the language I'm building. So... possible, anyone tried   
   > this earlier?   
      
   Nope -this wasn't considered even for a source to source (fortran to   
   parallel fortran)  translator I worked for. The main issue is that you   
   need to identify a basic block to apply I/M optimization techniques.   
      
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