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Re: [stage 2 projects] Enable new points-to solver
- From: "Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo at libero dot it>
- To: "Diego Novillo" <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 00:19:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: [stage 2 projects] Enable new points-to solver
- References: <20050708221031.GA10204@topo.toronto.redhat.com>
Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com> wrote:
> This patch finally enables the new points-to solver by making it
> part of the alias machinery. Up until now, we were only using it
> in few cases, and we were not transferring all of the
> information.
It is not clear to me if this makes GCC generate better code, or it is just a
big cleanup of how aliasing information is computed. Are there a couple of
small snippets where we now generate better code than we used to?
Just for curiosity, I'm not even thinking of being in the way of this patch of
course.
Giovanni Bajo