Hi - This is not really a gcc question, and it should really be asked elsewhere... however, it's unlikely that this occasional dereference will adversely affect performance. Brian On 3/16/06, Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently writing a patch to bison, and can not afford to effect > it's efficiency. > > Theoretically, a function in bison uses a local variable named "lfoo" and > a global variable named "gfoo". I need to pack both of these into a struct, > named "sfoo". > > If the function currently uses the variables directly like 'lfoo = 0;', > will changing them to 'sfoo_obj->lfoo = 0;' effect the efficiency of the > program in regards to speed? > > Thanks, > Bob Rossi >
