proposal for compilation unit wide alias analyis

[Paul Brook]

On Saturday 26 June 2004 11:40, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 18:08, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > > However the mainline might be good as well as we already do have
> > > functions gimplified at the time cgraph_analize is called (ie when you
> > > would like to do the analysis).
> >
> > Really?  Then why do we call the gimplifier as one of the tree
> > optimization passes?  That makes things easier then.  But the bodies are
>
> We call it only when GIMPLE_BEFORE_INLINING is false, but it is true for
> all existing backends except for fortran, but fortran also gimplify.  I
> would vote to drop this code.

Fortran only gimplifies because we got ICEs otherwise. Supposedly it was a 
temporary hack :)
Isn't the C frontend also close to generating GENERIC?

I don't know if this affects the decision, I'm just pointing out that fortran 
may not be the only exception for much longer.

Paul