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authorchriseth <chris@ethereum.org>2018-02-06 01:16:08 +0800
committerAlex Beregszaszi <alex@rtfs.hu>2018-02-06 18:15:41 +0800
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diff --git a/libjulia/optimiser/UnusedPruner.cpp b/libjulia/optimiser/UnusedPruner.cpp
index 50f4d9f1..50038431 100644
--- a/libjulia/optimiser/UnusedPruner.cpp
+++ b/libjulia/optimiser/UnusedPruner.cpp
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ void UnusedPruner::operator()(Block& _block)
else if (statement.type() == typeid(VariableDeclaration))
{
VariableDeclaration& varDecl = boost::get<VariableDeclaration>(statement);
+ // Multi-variable declarations are special. We can only remove it
+ // if all vairables are unused and the right-hand-side is either
+ // movable or it return a single value. In the latter case, we
+ // replace `let a := f()` by `pop(f())` (in pure IULIA, this will be
+ // `drop(f())`).
if (boost::algorithm::none_of(
varDecl.variables,
[=](TypedName const& _typedName) { return used(_typedName.name); }
@@ -68,6 +73,8 @@ void UnusedPruner::operator()(Block& _block)
statement = Block{std::move(varDecl.location), {}};
}
else if (varDecl.variables.size() == 1)
+ // In pure IULIA, this should be replaced by a function call to `drop`
+ // instead of `pop`.
statement = ExpressionStatement{varDecl.location, FunctionalInstruction{
varDecl.location,
solidity::Instruction::POP,