optimization of switch statements on i386

Diego Novillo dnovillo@google.com
Mon Feb 11 18:47:00 GMT 2008


On 11 Feb 2008 09:54:19 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

>  gcc_unreachable means nothing special to gcc.

But it does have control-flow connotations.  The function ultimately
expands into fancy_abort, which is marked noreturn. We do use that
fact in the optimizer.


Diego.



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