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Re: Local update flow info assumes valid situations are illegal


On Jan  4, 2001, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:15:37PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> It happens to be the frame pointer, in this case.

> In which case it _isn't_ dead.

Why not?  The bb (and the function) ended with a call to a noreturn
function.  The reg_set at the end of the bb was empty.  There was no
use of the frame pointer remaining.  So why isn't it dead?

> So who, again, thought that it went dead (or came live)
> somewhere?

It was sched that called update_life_info in this case.

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