RFC: New C++ Attribute: final

Dale Johannesen dalej@apple.com
Wed Mar 3 00:39:00 GMT 2004


On Mar 2, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:21:44PM -0800, Dale Johannesen wrote:
>> There are wins to be had by analyzing indirect calls in C,
>> also, for example on the gap SPECmark.  What you want to do there is
>> find the hot indirect calls and the hot calls that actually get made
>> via feedback, and pull out the common cases and inline them.
>
> Yes, but that's irrelevant to matching up CALL_EXPR with
> "type of object being called", and thence to "which function
> must be invoked".

Certainly the problems are different, but there's some similarity and
some of the code could be shared, if whoever does it is thinking
along those lines.  That's all I meant to suggest at this point.



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