-funsafe-loop-optimizations

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Sat Jan 1 00:03:00 GMT 2005


* Zdenek Dvorak:

> several times some people sounded opinion that in addition to improving
> analyses in loop optimizer, we might also add a flag that would enable
> the compiler to assume that the compiled code does not contain loops
> behaving in "weird" way (loops whose control induction variables
> overflows, infinite loops with nontrivial exit conditions).

Are these optimizations permitted by the C standard, the Ada standard
etc.?

If not, the documentation should mention this fact, and it should
provide proper documentation.  With the current documentation, I have
no idea whether it's safe to use this option for my code or not.  (The
situation is a bit different from the floating point case, IMHO.)



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