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Re: [PATCH] Update source location for PRE inserted stmt
It will make the location info for the newly synthesized stmt more
deterministic, I think.
David
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Dehao Chen wrote:
>> This patch aims to improve debugging of optimized code. It ensures
>> that PRE inserted statements have the same source location as the
>> statement at the insertion point, instead of UNKNOWN_LOCATION.
>
> Wrong patch attached.
>
> However, is it really better to have the location of the insertion
> point than to have UNKNOWN_LOCATION? It's not where the value is
> computed in the source program...
>
> Ciao!
> Steven