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Re: [sa]: Revert partial def stuff, use fake variables instead


On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:32 +0100, Zdenek Dvorak wrote:

> well, if you did not start claiming that I have changed the results of
> alias analysis, I would not have a problem with this.
> 
> I still would have problems with understanding why are the results
> represented in a way that makes it close to impossible to work with
> them, rather than having a simple annotation on a memory reference whose
> format would be independent on how the reference looks inside (in
> particular on whether its base is a variable or a pointer).
Zdenek -- I agree totally and I fully expect my tree-ssa-alias.c rewrite
to address this issue.  Given an object and a pointer to that object,
a reference to the object or dereferencing a pointer to the object will
look the same in terms of the virtual operands we generate.

jeff



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