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Re : ipa-cp drawback
I just need an example to understant the pb.
after that I will test with the current IPA CP implementetion
Thank you
----- Message d'origine ----
De : Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
À : charfi asma <charfiasma@yahoo.fr>
Cc : gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Envoyé le : Mer 21 avril 2010, 16 h 54 min 00 s
Objet : Re: ipa-cp drawback
charfi asma <charfiasma@yahoo.fr> writes:
> I have question concernais the constant propagation drawbacks.
> I
> red in one of the GCC summit paper that Constant propagation is limited
> to create at most one clone of each function body and only in the case:
> - the operand is the same constant in all calls to the function
> - the operand would not be propagated without cloning because function might be called externally
> This makes the interaction with the inliner suboptimal
>
> Could so explain more this idea? did this means that ipa-cp will produce only one version of a calle function?
> Could so please give me an example that shows this drawbak?
I think that the implementation of IPA CP has been improved since that
paper was written.
Ian