http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37516
--- Comment #4 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-02-23 22:15:05 UTC --- > Maybe get away with these old-stylish names ('tree' and 'fold') and > make it match reality, gimple-ssa-combine.c ;) That sounds like a good idea. I have done that. > > Still have to have a look at your branch - do you have a brief > overview documentation, for example on the wiki? What I'd like > to do is have an interface that I can re-use for VN combining, > basically replace its simplify_*_expression functions. I don't have one yet. But I hope to create one this weekend. Right now replacing the VN combining with this new functionality will not work as it scans the defs itself. Though I am moving all the def scanning to its own function which should allow for the code to be more modular and allow for the VN combining to work with it.