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Re: "Documentation by paper"

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
To: law at redhat dot com
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie at shareable dot org>,Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu,paolo dot bonzini at polimi dot it, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:11:44 -0500
Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
References: <200402091838.i19IcQO6024026@speedy.slc.redhat.com>

law@redhat.com wrote:

In message <20040209175301.GB3455@mail.shareable.org>, Jamie Lokier writes:
 >Granted, but papers do refer to them as "minimal SSA" et al., and the
 >properties are relevant to algorithms.  Without being 100% certain
 >from memory, I recall some algorithms require some of the "useless"
 >PHI nodes to be present.

I'll also note that our optimizers don't care if they're presented with the
extra PHI nodes or not

Fine, this should be part of the documented spec.

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- Re: "Documentation by paper"
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