https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4210
--- Comment #41 from Niels Möller <nisse at lysator dot liu.se> --- (In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #39) > You can easily find which pass does something by dumping (-ftree-dump-*) > all of them and comparing them. It's -ftree-dump-all, and also -fdump-passes was useful. Thanks! I'm now compiling without optimization to (i) reduce number of passes, and (ii) because it would be nice to get it right also in absence of optimization options. It looks like the dead code is eliminated by the "cfg" (control flow graph) pass, in gcc/tree-cfg.c. In the .cfg dumpfile it says "Removing basic block 3", and the invalid shift disappears in that dump. That's nice. Immediately after this pass comes *warn_function_return, implemented in the same file. It would make sense to me to add a pass to warn about shift operations with invalid constant operands at about the same place. Is it easy to traverse a gimple function, and check all expressions? The "*warn_unused_result" pass seems to do a similar traversal (but examining statements rather than expressions, and done *before* the cfg pass).
