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Re: [tree-ssa] PATCH to expose calculation of VLA ARRAY_REFs

From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
To: Pop Sébastian <pop at gauvain dot u-strasbg dot fr>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:59:40 -0500
Subject: Re: [tree-ssa] PATCH to expose calculation of VLA ARRAY_REFs
References: <wvln0k9h53l.fsf@prospero.boston.redhat.com><20030305214815.GA32594@gauvain.u-strasbg.fr>

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:48:15 +0100, Pop Sébastian <pop at gauvain dot u-strasbg dot fr> wrote:

> why not simplify_array_ref_to_plus all the ARRAY_REFs?

Because currently alias set calculations work better with the ARRAY_REF
form; with an ARRAY_REF it's clear that it references a particular
subobject of the array.  I'm not sure that this is a reason to keep it in
the long term, though.  Other thoughts?

Jason

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