Instructions having variable names as operands

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Dear Mr. Lattner:

You have asked me how my instruction set works.

If I code like this:

int foo1()
{
    int x1,x2;
    x1 =1;
    x2 = foo2(x1);
    return x2;
}
                
int foo2(int k)
{
    if(k == 1)
       k = 2;
    
    return k;
}

int main ()
{
    int j;
    j = foo1();
}

This should be emitted like this:

Enter foo1;
reg x2, x1
add 1;x1
Call foo2;x1,x2
Exit foo1; x2

Enter foo2; k
reg temp0:1
cmp k,1;temp0
demultiplex m0;temp0;b1;b0
branch b0
  add 2;k
unbranch b0
branch b1
unbranch b1
mux m0
Exit foo2; k

I am not sure about full source language scoping rules you mentioned. Would you mind telling me about that?
Thank you very much.

Seung Jae Lee

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I the example I gave, variable scoping rules allow you to have multiple different varibles with the same name. How do you handle this?

-Chris