------- Comment #4 from dnovillo at redhat dot com 2006-06-13 14:49 ------- Subject: Re: gimplifying "return CONSTANT" creates unneeded temporaties
dann at godzilla dot ics dot uci dot edu wrote on 06/13/06 10:42: > ------- Comment #3 from dann at godzilla dot ics dot uci dot edu 2006-06-13 > 14:42 ------- > One of the issues with this PR and also 27800, 27809 and 27810 is that this > extra work/memory allocation done for a number of functions that are never > used: like all the inline functions present in the glibc headers. These > functions are thrown out after gimplification... > We need to strike a balance between the potential memory savings due to a more streamlined GIMPLE and the effort needed to get it. We should avoid anything that requires the gimplifier to build complex dataflow and/or duplicate existing optimizations. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27798