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Re: [PATCH] match.pd: reassociate multiplications with constants
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Marc Glisse wrote:
> I notice that we do not turn (X*10)*10 into X*100 in GIMPLE.
Sorry, could you clarify what you mean here? I think we certainly do that,
just not via match.pd, but in 'associate:' case of fold_binary_loc.
> Relying on inner expressions being folded can be slightly dangerous,
> especially for generic IIRC. It seems easy enough to check that @1 is neither
> 0 nor -1 for safety.
I wanted to add a gcc_checking_assert to that effect, but it's not used in
match.pd anywhere. Is there a nice way to do that?
Thanks!
Alexander