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Re: [RFC] Migrate pointers to members to the middle end

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Ollie Wild <aaw at google dot com>, GCC List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:11:34 -0700
Subject: Re: [RFC] Migrate pointers to members to the middle end
References: <65dd6fd50708071404n7bcb356fx4b267e1874062458@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708082027510.23011@wotan.suse.de> <m3wsw5h7c4.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708090240050.23011@wotan.suse.de> <m3643osb87.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:29:28PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Also in Java it is possible to devirtualize calls in some situations
> where only a bound on the type is known.  For instance at a call site
> we might know that all possible targets are derived from a class where
> the virtual method is final.

Likewise in C++ we might know that a method is effectively final because
no class overrides it.

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