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Re: pr14627
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:58:07PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 16:49, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> > Simply disallowing constants would be a mistake -- we would need
> > to do the legwork to fix the existing optimizers.
>
> Which ones? Isn't DOM the only pass that uses this?
>
CCP will use it if it sees a constant in a PHI argument.
However, most of the changes I have in mind involve telling the
optimizers not to expect constants in the argument list (for
instance, the copy propagator will break PHI evaluation as soon
as it sees a constant in the argument list).
Diego.