http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48092
Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2011.08.05 08:33:59 CC| |rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org Component|rtl-optimization |tree-optimization Summary|missing optimization |associative property of |(associative property of |builtins is not exploited |sqrt) |on GIMPLE Ever Confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #2 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-08-05 08:33:59 UTC --- The reason is we handle this only from the frontend folder which doesn't see builtins when using std::sqrt. A C testcase like double foo (double x, double y) { return __builtin_sqrt (x) * __builtin_sqrt (y); } is optimized. For C++ (thus, optimizing the above when wrapping the sqrt inside an inline function) these optimizations have to be replicated at the GIMPLE level. Which today means in, for example, tree-ssa-forwprop.c. Same issue for std::exp and other associative builtins.