Optimization of conditional access to globals: thread-unsafe?

Tomash Brechko tomash.brechko@gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 22:01:00 GMT 2007


On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:49:00 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I don't know which suggestion you are referring to.  The patch I wrote
> will retain the optimization in the case where the memory location is
> unconditionally written later in the function.  This is most relevant
> in that the optimization can take place in a loop, if somewhere after
> the loop the memory location is unconditionally written.

OK, thanks for the description, I just couldn't build GCC after update
to see what result looks like.  And big Thank You for the patch!


-- 
   Tomash Brechko



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