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RE: [PATCH] Re: ref_contains_indirect_ref always false?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Daniel Berlin'" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>,"'Diego Novillo'" <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "'Richard Kenner'" <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>,"'Richard Guenther'" <rguenther at suse dot de>,<gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>,<gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:23:18 -0000
- Subject: RE: [PATCH] Re: ref_contains_indirect_ref always false?
Daniel Berlin wrote:
> The use in tree-ssa-loop-niter.c is really trying to skip out on
> inferring loop bounds from pointer to structure accesses in the case of
> things like:
>
>
> struct a
> {
> char foo[1];
> };
>
>
> struct a *b = malloc (sizeof (struct a) + 100);
> b->foo = "I like candy!"
>
>
> Since we have to keep this working:)
We do?! Storing a pointer value to a char variable has never worked very
well so far!
;)
cheers,
DaveK
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