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Re: Basic Block Statistics
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: Will Hawkins <whh8b at virginia dot edu>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 12:33:56 -0600
- Subject: Re: Basic Block Statistics
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On 05/16/2017 12:24 PM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I apologize if this is not the right venue to ask this question and/or
> this is a waste of your time.
>
> I was just wondering if there are statistics that gcc can emit that
> includes either a) the average number of instructions per basic block
> and/or b) the average size (in bytes) per basic block in a compilation
> unit.
>
> If nothing like this exists, I am more than happy to code something up
> if people besides me think that it might be interesting.
>
> I promise that I googled for information before asking, but I can't
> guarantee that I didn't miss anything. Again, I apologize if I just
> needed to RTFM better.
I don't think we have anything which inherently will give you this
information.
It'd be a useful thing to have though. Implementation may be made more
difficult by insns that generate > 1 instruction.
Jeff