problems with the ipa pass manager.

[Kenneth Zadeck]

The current design (or at least implementation) of the ipa pass manager 
seems to have a serious design flaw.  The passes are called vertically 
rather than horizontally.  What I mean by this is that

for each function F in the compilation unit
    build the cfg for F
   for each pass P in the ipa pass manager
       call P (F);

This design has several serious flaws:
   
1) The cfg is only built for the functions that have already been 
processed.  They have not been built for the functions to be processed.

2) Many axillary functions have been booby-trapped to abort if the 
function that they are called on does not have a cfg.
consider
   cgraph_function_body_availability calls
   tree_inlinable_function_p calls
   inlinable_function_p calls
   inline_forbidden_p which has been booby-trapped. 

so with the current design, it is impossible ask important questions 
about the functions that have not yet been processed.

3) With this current design it is impossible to implement a series of 
ipa-based improvers since the output of one ipa is not seen by the 
analysis routines of the next pass. 

Consider the case where it would be desirable to find and mark the set 
of module level static which are readonly and do not have their address 
taken and then using this analysis to do a better job of identifying 
const and pure functions.  Unless you can do this in a single pass, you 
are screwed by this ipa pass manager architecture.

4) This ipa pass manager design will make it impossible to do true cfg 
based inlining whose results can be seen by ipa passes since the actual 
inlining, by design, must be done after all the ipa passes have finished 
(this is the only time when the entire cfg has been built).

The proper design for this needs to be (where building the cfg is the 
first ipa pass):
for each pass manager pass P:
  {
     for each function F
        call P.analyze_function(F)

     for each global variable V
        call P analyze_variable (V)
    
     call P.execute()

     for each function F
        call P.transform_function(F)

    for each global variable V
        call P transform_variable (V)
  }