On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:59:36AM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: > Hum. Can't the compiler figure this our itself per-call-site? At least > the name of the command-line switch -m[no-]r11 is meaningless to me. > Points-to information should be able to tell you if the function pointer > points to a nested function.
Yeah. E.g. for C++ virtual method calls I believe all function pointers in vtables should always ignore the static chain pointer, etc., because you can't have a nested method. Jakub