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Re: Loop optimizer issues


Hello,

> Diego Novillo wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 14:35, Zdenek Dvorak wrote:
> 
> >>The process of merging of the loop optimizer work I am currently doing
> >>on rtlopt branch. I am quite sure that I won't be able to get it to
> >>reasonable state for 3.4. I would however like to reuse some parts of
> >>this work on tree-ssa. Would it be feasible to merge this work from
> >>rtlopt branch to tree-ssa branch once it is in sufficiently stabilized
> >>state (in about a month or so)?
> 
> Note that induction variable re-combination can only be done at the RTL 
> level, because only at that level it's clear what addressing modes are 
> available to estimate correct costs.

that is not entirely true -- as discussed on gcc summit, it should be
relatively easy to let ast level access some parts of machine-specific
data, like cost function for different addressing modes.

Zdenek


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