[tree-ssa] Removal of gotos from cfg based ir

Zdenek Dvorak rakdver@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Fri Nov 14 07:03:00 GMT 2003


Hello,

>  >> I
>  >> understand there are benefits, but there are also negatives. Thats a big
>  >> enough switch that we're almost handling 2 ILs in my books.
>  >
>  >Could you be more specific about the negatives? I fail to see any.
> First and foremost the IL is no longer a complete representation of the
> program.  To me that seems like the wrong direction from a design standpoint.

it is not now, either; to do exception handling, you must use such a kind
of information.  And in fact, IL == statements + cfg even now -- you
cannot reach statements without passing through basic blocks.

Zdenek



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