Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.

Gabriel Dos_Reis gdosreis@sophia.inria.fr
Sun Aug 5 09:27:00 GMT 2001


| dewar@gnat.com wrote:
| 
| ><<That's certainly interesting, but still, what if I want to know what the
| >compiler did to my code (at least as much as can be), but I don't know
| >RTL? (Or perhaps if I learn it, can I get that to be output so that I
| >can improve my own coding practices?)
| >
| >
| >A fair point .. but not one with an easy solution
| >
| >In GNAT, we have a very useful option to print out the optimized code in
| >source form, it only covers front end optimizations, not gcc backend ones,
| >but it is an interesting model. For example, you put in the source:
| >
| 
| All well and good, but what of C or C++? Perhaps an almost unfair q, but 
| C is where most (at least UNIX) development is taking place.

I'm not sure to understand exactly what you intended.  Could you
elaborate? 

-- Gaby



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