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Re: Dubious patches from gcc2 merge
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 01:38:31PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> >> Since all the *_rtx values are no longer pointer variables, but
> >> addresses of a global rtx_def, they can never be NULL.
>
> But, we need to make thse back in heap-allocated storage again.
I would still not expect them to be NULL. Given that they can be
initialized with gen_rtx_raw_REG, there's no need add extra checks
for NULL in such a heavily used routine.
> We're already seeing major performance wins from the new collector,
Glad to hear it.
r~