[tree-ssa] Gimplifying Java

Paul Brook paul@nowt.org
Tue Jun 17 20:34:00 GMT 2003


On Tuesday 17 June 2003 8:18 pm, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:29, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > You may have noticed :-) that there is a ton of unnecessary
> > temporaries.  That's bad of course, but I'll look at that later.  The
> > main reason for these temporaries in the Java compiler is that the gcc
> > is very prone to rearranging expressions.  I presume that SIMPLE won't
> > do that, so I can remove some of them.
>
> Not yet, but we may in the future.  There's been talk on and off about
> extra expression bits to disallow reordering.

This would also be useful for fortran.

Paul



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