Re: [tree-ssa] RFC: Making control flow more explicit

[Zdenek Dvorak <rakdver at atrey dot karlin dot mff dot cuni dot cz>]

Hello,

> > > So why are you remoiving the concept of a parent?  Or is there simply a
> > > different way of getting to it?
> > 
> > because parent obviously is not what you want here. IIRC in the ssa dce
> > algorithm marking of the neccesary control statements is somehow
> > done using dominator information.
> 
> I think Jeff tried that with the current DCE implementatoin:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-08/msg00323.html
> 
> Now if computing/using control dependency is the only way to make it
> work after your patches, maybe he can dig up that work again so we can
> try it with your modified tree-ssa???

this seem like the only way to me (although of course the performance
loss Jeff mentions is unpleasant).

Zdenek