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Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC
On Dec 20, 2007, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> > How do i know i need to change this DEBUG expression.
>>
>> As reassoc looks for sets of variables it can freely mess with, it
>> should take note of variables that are used in debug annotations in
>> addition to the kind of single (?) non-debug uses it's interested in,
>> such that, when it modifies these variables, the annotations can be
>> compensated for.
> The question is how it finds them efficiently, without doing a scan of
> all instructions.
It must keep track of variables it can mess with, so it might as well
take notes about those it has to be more careful about.
*Or* it can just introduce new temporaries, rename the uses and leave
the original sets behind for "garbage collection" AKA dead code
elimination, like I said.
One is more implementation work, the other is potentially more
wasteful in terms of memory use. None look particularly hard to me.
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