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Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>, Scott Robert Ladd <coyote at coyotegulch dot com>, gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:46:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- Organization: Red Hat Canada
- References: <200401172122.i0HLMo1g031127@speedy.slc.redhat.com>
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 16:22, law@redhat.com wrote:
> In message <200401171457.29989.paul@codesourcery.com>, Paul Brook writes:
> >Gfortran requires much of the tree-ssa infrastructure (GENERIC, etc.), and
> >will probably not be merged without it.
> Right. Though it does not necessarily depend on the optimization aspects
> of tree-ssa.
>
It may indirectly. In that the generated code w/o the tree optimizers
will likely be quite bad. Also, if we merge GENERIC/GIMPLE w/o the
optimizers, users will probably hunt us down.
> >g77 will probably never be made to work with tree-ssa. IMHO such effort would
> >be better directed towards making gfortran work properly.
> Agreed 100%.
>
Yes.
Diego.