------- Comment #6 from rakdver at atrey dot karlin dot mff dot cuni dot cz  
2006-06-05 11:04 -------
Subject: Re:  [4.2 Regression] tree check failure building FreePOOMA

> Someone who understands SCEV really needs to fix it.

On this particular piece of code SCEV seems to behave just fine; you ask
for the evolution of a pointer, and then use TYPE_MAX_VALUE on its type --
that's not going to work.

> It's been a consistent
> source of problems for VRP -- whether it's giving us bogus ranges (ranges
> outside the given type) or claiming variables do not wrap when in fact they do
> wrap (IIRC there's still an outstanding PR due to this problem).
> 
> If someone were to fix the SCEV problem touched by pr 25900, then the 
> offending
> VRP code could be eliminated.

I will have a look.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27865

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