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Re: Is cc1 backend or frontend?

From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
To: Bernd Jendrissek <berndj at prism dot co dot za>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>, Albert Wang <alrrr at sina dot com>,"gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: 07 May 2003 08:15:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Is cc1 backend or frontend?
Organization: Red Hat Canada
References: <000701c31394$e3d831f0$63526fa6@wangwei> <20030506151217.L31156@prism.co.za> <20030507065435.GA28030@ceres.cs.mu.oz.au> <20030507101817.P31156@prism.co.za>

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 04:18, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:

> Ah, so libbackend.a is real (I don't watch make bootstrap *that* closely
> to know:)  But... what exactly *does* the middle-end do?  I assume it does
> some optimizations, maybe CSE, hoisting stuff out of loops, etc.?  But if
> none of the optimizations are enabled, what's left - TREE->RTL conversion?
>
At the moment, the middle end does inlining on the tree representation,
tree->RTL conversion and little else.  That's changing with the tree-ssa
branch.  See http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/


Diego.

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