SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR
Joe Buck
jbuck@synopsys.COM
Thu Jan 3 12:44:00 GMT 2002
I wrote:
> Since we have the as-if rule, that's not quite the answer; we can only
> say that the visible side effects (accesses to volatile variables,
> calls to other functions that may have side effects) cannot be
> interleaved. If f, g, and h are inlined, we could have considerable
> freedom to do reordering despite the C99 rules.
I don't bring this up just to nitpick. If we're going to have a common
low-level tree representation, we need some way to represent which
reorderings are permitted and which aren't, in a language-independent way.
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