[tree-ssa] Dce & infinite loops

Geert Bosch bosch@gnat.com
Thu Mar 18 16:56:00 GMT 2004


On Mar 18, 2004, at 11:26, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:31:39AM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote:
>> I've always hated this custom.  Is this a language mandate?  Or just
>> "we've always done it this way"?
>
> The later.  Lets stop this madness.

Richard, Diego was talking about removing infinite loops.
Of course this is an invalid transformation and I'm surprised
that anyone would think otherwise. Whether a program halts or
not  is the fundamental outcome of running it.

   -Geert



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