[google]: initialize language field for clone function struct

Richard Kenner kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Wed May 4 11:50:00 GMT 2011


> That's what we should phase out.  The eventual aim should be for (a) 
> folding on GIMPLE (gimple-fold etc. - working with SSA not combined trees) 
> as an optimization and (b) folding done by front ends only when required 
> for language semantics (e.g. constant expressions).  

Why?  Isn't it always better to optimize as early as you can when it's
easy?  Why keep unfolded constants around at all?



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