Re: GCC 4.1 Status Report (2005-05-04)

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Dorit Naishlos wrote:
> > GCC 4.1 is going rather well thus far.
> >
> > Technically, Stage 1 ended on April 25th, though I failed to announce
> > that.  There are a few stage 1 tasks that have not made it in yet,
> > according to the Wiki:
> >
> > # Autovectorization Enhancements
> > Items 1.4, 2.1, 2.3 (1.3)
>
>
> Items 1.4 and 2.3 are in, right Devang?

Thanks, I see that's now bee updated on the Wiki by some kind soul.
> I also realized I left out part of Item 1.3 -
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-03/msg01285.html:
> "(2) Generate better code when different accesses are known to have the
> same
> misalignment, even if the misalignment amount itself is unknown.  This part
> is deferred to stage 1.3 as it depends on:
> [item 1.4] Consider dependence distance in the vectorizer (Devang)"
> By the time Item 1.4 went in I totally forgot about this (sorry!). I think
> this bit is also appropriate for stage 2 - it's really far from being a
> major change. I'll be away for the next two weeks, Keith may submit it as
> he may need this bit for Item 2.1 (versioning for alignment).

I agree, this can be part of Stage 2.

Thanks,

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