How to detect whether we're inside of a loop??

S. Bosscher S.Bosscher@student.tudelft.nl
Wed Apr 9 19:17:00 GMT 2003


Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:25  PM, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Why don't you just use the support that GCC already has for
> > detecting the probability that a block will be executed?
> 
> Because it's at the tree level he's talking about, not the RTL
> level.

FWIW, once tree-ssa-vrp is implemented, you get branch
prediction with it for free.  Would that help?

Greetz
Steven



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