Re: GCC Release Status (2004-05-23)

[Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>]

> >I would actually like to merge the main expansion changes from
> >tree-profiling.  I believe they are resonably stable now and works as
> >expected.
> 
> Yes, that's seems like a good idea if we're focusing on removing RTL passes.
> 
> It was actually past me why these were not accepted together with the 
> other gimple-low changes -- did/do they cause any regression?

The patches were late for tree-ssa since it was already heading for the
merge and it was decided to avoid possible destabilization coming from
this work.  (We spent quite a lot of time discussing how to attack the
problem and thus the plans got delayed...)

> 
> > old loop is retired (or
> >updated to keep CFG in shape - possible backup plan I would preffer to
> >not realize ;)
> 
> No please... there's so much code in integrate.c waiting for the old 
> loop optimizer to go away.
Yep ;)

Honza
> 
> Paolo