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Re: Abusive (?) promotions to int
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: ian at wasabisystems dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 03 19:08:33 EDT
- Subject: Re: Abusive (?) promotions to int
In principle the combine pass could detect the use of a zero-extended
value in a context in which the zero-extension is not required. In
practice this would probably be difficult.
No, I think the code is there to do it!