Re: PR 19925 and expansion of array constructors

[Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 19:37, Erik Edelmann wrote:
> My question is: where is the correct place to expand the
> constructor?  And why not expand all constructors, small as well as
> large, in gfc_expand_constructor?  Since they'll have to be
> eaxpanded anyway at some point, why not do it from the beginning?

Expanding everything takes insane amounts of memory and produces unreasonably 
large executables. An example from real code:

program killme
  integer, parameter :: N = 200000000
  integer :: i
  integer :: a(N) = (/(0, i = 1, N)/)
  call foo(a)
end program

For really big variables (Where anything > GFC_MAX_AC_EXPAND counts as big) we 
want to expand these at runtime. ie. the above code becomes:

program killme
  integer, parameter :: N = 200000000
  integer :: i
  integer, save :: a(N)
  logical :: _initialized_a = .false.
  if (.not. _initialized_a) then
    do _i = 1, N
     a(_i) = 0
    end do
  end if
  call foo(a)
end program

It's probably worth special casing initialization-to-zero, but we still want 
other cases to work.

Note there are obviously other places than need to check GFC_MAX_AC_EXPAND as 
the above case already takes an unreasonable amount of time to compile 
(before it fails).

Paul