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Re: Continue stmt branch prediction
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 18:37, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
> This seems bit hackish way
> to me to save one case label in DCE: DCE is a bit special among the
> early passes in a way that it does worry about more side effects of
> statements beside the usual operands+semantics of statements all the
> other propagation passes are about. DCE has to know all GIMPLE
> statement types (and it just aborts on any new). I would tend to argue
> that with exception of DCE we can hardly come with early scalar cleanup
> pass that really do care here and will need to special case MODIFY_EXPR
> statement.
Hm, good point. Let's leave it as a special instruction then.
Diego.