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Re: Empty loop elimination in 4.0 ?


On Jan 10, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Oscar Fuentes wrote:

Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:

I think it is always a good idea to generate a warning
when an empty loop is detected (whether or not it is
eliminated), since this is either a timing loop, or it
is likely a bug.

Not in C++. 

Or even in C now a days with all the optimizations we could do like
converting some loops to memset which still keeps the loop because it is
ideal to have later passes delete the loop.

-- Pinski

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