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Re: Alias analysis - does base_alias_check still work ?
- From: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:52:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: Alias analysis - does base_alias_check still work ?
- References: <20020719095446.A15598@redhat.com> <200208121452.g7CEqk904215@porcupine.slc.redhat.com>
> In message <20020719095446.A15598@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson writes:
> >On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:40:26PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:
> >> Which begs the question: Is there a reason -fschedule-insns isn't on by
> >> default when using -O2 ?
> >
> >Yes. The fact that the scheduler doesn't understand register
> >pressure means that pre-register-allocation scheduling generally
> >sucks eggs on x86.
> True. But the real reason -fschedule-insns isn't on by default for ia32
> is the return register problem -- which I believe you actually fixed
> a while back, but we haven't gone back to see if it's safe/profitable to
> enable the first scheduling pass for ia32.
Did you really fixed all the problems regarding SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSes?
When using register passing conventions I've seen ia32 compilation
dying all the time.
It may be interesting to set the flag on at least for x86_64 where
register pressure is lower if it worked.
Honza
>
> Jeff
>