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Re: Compiler loop optimizations
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:03:51 -0500
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:
> > There is no support for dumping actual valid source code, though,
> > and it is unlikely that there ever will be.
>
> And indeed it is not in general possible, there are many optimizations
> that cannot be expressed in valid C.
Why not? Could you provide an example.
Cannot every assembly program (each optimized C program can
be dumped as assembly code with -S) be transformed into an equivalent
C program?
Christian