Tweak to gengtype

Steven Bosscher stevenb@suse.de
Thu Jan 20 23:06:00 GMT 2005


On Friday 21 January 2005 00:05, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> GCC should really be able to remove a trivial empty loop like this one.
>   It's easy to prove that it (a) really is empty and (b) is guaranteed
> to terminate.  (The second condition is a bit harder, but all the logic
> should be there.)  Do you know why it's not being removed?

A design choice.  GCC does not remove empty loops because people
don't want it to do so.

Gr.
Steven



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