Alias analysis - does base_alias_check still work ?
Jeff Law
law@porcupine.slc.redhat.com
Mon Aug 12 07:49:00 GMT 2002
In message <20020719095446.A15598@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson writes:
>On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:40:26PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:
>> Which begs the question: Is there a reason -fschedule-insns isn't on by
>> default when using -O2 ?
>
>Yes. The fact that the scheduler doesn't understand register
>pressure means that pre-register-allocation scheduling generally
>sucks eggs on x86.
True. But the real reason -fschedule-insns isn't on by default for ia32
is the return register problem -- which I believe you actually fixed
a while back, but we haven't gone back to see if it's safe/profitable to
enable the first scheduling pass for ia32.
Jeff
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