On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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.
For this kind of FE specific info you could use a flag on the CALL_EXPR as well. Richard.
