Re: implementing escape analysis

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Per Bothner writes:
 > David Daney wrote:
 > > I keep threatening to do this for gcj, but was thinking that the best 
 > > place to do it may be the front end.  Once in tree-ssa form it is more 
 > > difficult to figure out that a call to _Jv_AllocObject followed by a 
 > > call to the constructor is the equivalent of the 'new' operator.
 > 
 > Why is that relevant to escape analysis?  A constructor is just
 > another method, in this context.

Indeed: the only thing that has to be recognized as "special" is a
malloc-like function.

Andrew.