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Re: [tree-ssa] How to make DECLs that alias
Geoff Keating writes:
>
> Would it work if you avoided having the DECLs alias, and copy one to
> the other at appropriate points? The optimisers should remove any
> unnecessary copies.
That's a good idea, but it would, I think, require knowledge of data
flow in the front end. Unless, of course, we always copy every store
to every alias. On the other hand, that might be OK. I should try that.
Andrew.