what optimizations are invalid in java?

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Wed Mar 13 07:55:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:

Jan> fold_const: We can remove dead parts of expresisons poossibly eliminating
Jan> trap.

Jan> Code not executed is unreachable, dead code is code executed but
Jan> with void results.  In fold const we can delete as dead for
Jan> instance (a/b)*0 that may trap in case b is 0.

Thanks.  In that case I think we can only remove dead code that is
known not to generate an exception.

Tom



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