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Re: New assert in haifa-sched.c
Eric Botcazou writes:
> > Yes, the assert is really checking exactly that. Several pieces of
> > haifa-sched.c assume that the instruction has been recognized during
> > scheduler initialization to speed up checking if instruction is normal
> > or some kind of use/clobber/asm.
>
> What happens if an instruction hasn't been recognized upon reaching these
> parts of haifa-sched.c? Will it be only mis-scheduled, i.e. will this only
> result in inferior, but still correct code? If so, the assertion shouldn't
> be enabled in release mode but only if ENABLE_CHECKING is defined.
Well, I can't bootstrap as it is so it would be nice if this was fixed
regardless of the checking level. (And this is what my patch does in
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-09/msg00574.html.) Another option
would be to completely remove the assert.
Adam