vrp?

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Wed Feb 12 16:02:00 GMT 2003


Richard> Any idea what the state of the last value-range propagation patch is?

Jeff> I think we had some minor differences in how we thought it ought to
Jeff> work, but nothing drastic.  Of course there were also the compile-time
Jeff> issues since I my recollection was that it was a traditional iterate
Jeff> iterate iterate until you reach a fixed point solution.  

	The RTL VRP is an interesting theoretical exercise, but not
properly designed for a commercial compiler, IMHO.

David



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