https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120164
--- Comment #7 from Tamar Christina <tnfchris at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Richard Biener from comment #6) > (In reply to Tamar Christina from comment #5) > > The given example is an easy one to drop, but I wonder what would happen if > > the block had other instructions too > > > > void foo(double * restrict a, double * restrict b, int n){ > > int i; > > for(i=0; i<n; ++i){ > > if (i % 1024 == 0) > > { > > __builtin_prefetch(&(b[i+1024])); > > a[i] = a[i] + b[i]; > > } > > } > > } > > > > would block if-conversion if we don't drop it early enough. > > I'd simply ignore prefetches during if-conversion analysis and drop them > during transform. Yeah that's what we did in r15-1211-gadcc815a01ae009d2768b6afb546e357bd37bbd2 though. So I guess this is just a missing case during analysis.