[tree-ssa] dead const/pure/alloca call removal

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sun Nov 9 16:10:00 GMT 2003


On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:21:30AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | The implementation provides malloc; GCC is merely a part of the
> | implementation.  We already assume a conforming library for many
> | optimizations; glibc doesn't provide strlen either.
> 
> Sure, but isn't a tracing malloc a conforming implementation?

Now that's a good question.  I have no idea :)  Note that we wouldn't
break it; some allocations would simply be missed, and they would be
relatively uninteresting from the tracing perspective since they would
have fairly simple lifetimes.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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