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Re: Local update flow info assumes valid situations are illegal

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:34:15PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Why not?  The bb (and the function) ended with a call to a noreturn
> function.  The reg_set at the end of the bb was empty.  There was no
> use of the frame pointer remaining.  So why isn't it dead?

Because the frame pointer is live throughout the entire function 
before reload.  This is because every pseudo is a potential
reference to the frame pointer if it is spilled to the stack.


r~
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