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Re: Removing -fssa
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, law at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:35:28 -0600
- Subject: Re: Removing -fssa
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <1057112372.24216.179.camel@doubledemon.codesourcery.com>, Mark Mitc
hell writes:
>On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:10, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 22:03 US/Eastern, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> > I'd like to remove -fssa from the mainline and disable it on the
>> > branch.
>> >
>> > The manual already documents this switch as not ready for production
>> > use, and the tree-ssa branch is what we really want for this
>> > functionality. Having it on the mainline and branch is just creating
>> > confusion for users, and bogus PRs in the database.
>> >
>> > Any objections?
>>
>> There was some objections when I proposed in May
>> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-05/msg02015.html>.
>
>I've copied Jeff since he was the objector.
>
>Jeff, my feeling is that putting the code out there for users to shoot
>themselves in the foot with is a mistake. If there's going to be a
>mid-level RTL branch, great -- this stuff can get moved there at some
>point. But, for now, it should just go away.
>
>Do you still think we should hold on to this code?
I think we should hold onto it -- in the form of files in the Attic :-)
Go ahead and kill it.
Jeff