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Re: Proposal for merging scalar-storage-order branch into mainline
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:39:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: Proposal for merging scalar-storage-order branch into mainline
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> What's the reason to not expose the byte swapping operations earlier, like
> on GIMPLE? (or even on GENERIC?)
That would be too heavy, every load and store in GENERIC/GIMPLE would have an
associated byte swapping operation, although you don't know if they will be
needed in the end. For example, if the structure is scalarized, they are not.
> What frontends are affected?
The branch contains a working implementation for the C and Ada front-ends, and
the beginning of an implementation for the C++ front-end.
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Eric Botcazou