[Bug rtl-optimization/25791] -O2 execution fails, -O and -g work

[dick_guertin at yahoo dot com]

------- Comment #27 from dick_guertin at yahoo dot com  2006-01-21 08:17 -------
Referring to Comment #26, these static objects are NOT all of one type, but
they share a common typedef struct, something like a union of different types
that share the same space.  Each type is a constructor allowing initialization
to occur different ways.  NKW and 'struct sckw" are two examples, and both
appear in Comment #25.

What I finally did was add a pointer to each object that points to another
object, usually of its own type.  But the pointer can by cast so that a
different type can be referenced.  Thus the pointer in  NKW can be cast as an
NKW pointer even though it points to a 'struct sckw' object, and vice-versa. 
To make this work, I had to reverse the declaration order so that the last is
declared first, and the first is declared last.   So the new 'first' (old
'last') has a zero pointer.  Those which follow point back to the one before
it.  This does two things:  it guarantees every object is referenced so it
isn't eliminated, and they can now be placed anywhere in memory.  Instead of
ticking through them with 'kwp += 1;',  I navigate thru them with 'kwp =
kwp->next;'.  The chain stops when kwp goes to zero (first declared, last
examined).

In cases where an array of like-kind objects was initialized, I simply point
down the list, such as:

     static NKW item[] = 
     {     SCKW_TOKEN("IF",xif,NKWFSET+NKWFCRTN, &item[1]),
           SCKW_TOKEN("SHOW",show,NKWFSET+NKWFCRTN, &item[2]),
           SCKW_TOKEN("SET",set,NKWFSET+NKWFCRTN, (NKW*)0)
     };

I'm documenting this just in case it can be useful to someone else with a
similar problem.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25791