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Re: Loop optimization
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Loop optimization
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at sleipnir dot valparaiso dot cl>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:44:49 -0400
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk> said:
[...]
> If you mean detecting loops that have been built with gotos, that
> defeats code that on putpose avoids explicit loop constructs because
> it 'knows' that the loop is executed close to a single time (or even
> close to zero times) on average.
Support for purposely obscuring code in this way is no feature in my eyes.
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