[tree-ssa] Maintaining/representing def-use/use-def information

Zdenek Dvorak rakdver@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Mon Dec 15 21:16:00 GMT 2003


Hello,

> No, we don't.  We don't have any concept of "defining variable" or
> "versions" at all.  Though all SSA construction papers talk about building
> versions of source variables, once you start doing transformations, that
> idea becomes quickly meaningless.

except for ssa-pre, that requires the original variable names.  I still
consider it an indication that there is something rotten with the
optimization, but did not get the idea how to make it better so far.

Zdenek



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