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Re: Lifetime of local variables
Martin Baulig <martin@gnome.org> writes:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > What business does the JIT have actually creating local variables
> > (rather than temporaries, which don't get names)? I don't understand.
>
> What's the difference between a local variable and a temporary variable ?
The difference is that the person who debugs a program generally wants
to look at the local variables and generally doesn't want to look at
compiler temporaries. For the latter case, registers/memory dump seems
appropriate or, for the case of CLI, the "evaluation stack" and the
"local variable array".
Regards,
-velco