[PING] Loop-optimizer patches

[Steven Bosscher]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 15:33, Zdenek Dvorak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > All these older patches are by Zdenek, but if approved I could take care
> > of redoing bootstraps and regtests, and applying them:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-03/msg01611.html
> > merging of equivalent invariants in rtl level invariant motion
>
> there is a minor bug in this version that I found during later tests,
> I will try to prepare the fixed version soon.
>
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-03/msg02577.html
> > reenables loop header predictor
>
> We have agreed with Honza that a better way is to move loop header
> copying after the profiling pass, I will try to do this soon as well
> (taking into account that I have about 5 patches I need to work
> on in the queue now, "soon" may take some time :-( )  There already is some
> profile updating code in tree-ssa-loop-ch, so it only needs to be
> checked that it behaves sanely, and to run some benchmark to verify that
> the pass reordering does not generate any unexpected regressions.

Even with loop header copying after profiling, this patch to re-enable
the predictor is still necessary.  Pat Haugen from IBM has an example
where this predictor is necessary to get one of his bb-reorder fix to
work.

Gr.
Steven