PowerPC shrink-wrap support 0 of 3

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 05:39:00 GMT 2011


On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 03:26:21PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> On 09/17/11 09:16, Alan Modra wrote:
> > This patch series adds shrink-wrap support for PowerPC.  The patches
> > are on top of Bernd's "Initial shrink-wrapping patch":
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-08/msg02557.html, but with the
> > tm.texi patch applied to tm.texi.in.  Bootstrapped and regression
> > tested powerpc64-linux all langs except ada, and spec CPU2006 tested.
> > The spec results were a little disappointing as I expected to see some
> > gains, but my baseline was a -O3 run and I suppose most of the
> > shrink-wrap opportunities were lost to inlining.
> 
> The last posted version had a bug that crept in during the review cycle,
> and which made it quite ineffective.

I wasn't complaining!  My disappointment really stemmed from having
unrealistically high expectations.  I still think this optimization is
a great feature.  Thanks for contributing it!

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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