Continue stmt branch prediction

Diego Novillo dnovillo@google.com
Thu Mar 13 14:12:00 GMT 2008


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 18:37, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:

> This seems bit hackish way
>  to me to save one case label in DCE: DCE is a bit special among the
>  early passes in a way that it does worry about more side effects of
>  statements beside the usual operands+semantics of statements all the
>  other propagation passes are about.  DCE has to know all GIMPLE
>  statement types (and it just aborts on any new). I would tend to argue
>  that with exception of DCE we can hardly come with early scalar cleanup
>  pass that really do care here and will need to special case MODIFY_EXPR
>  statement.

Hm, good point.  Let's leave it as a special instruction then.


Diego.



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