Hi Kyrill, On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Kyrill Tkachov wrote:
This patch adds a short entry for the store merging pass in GCC 7 to the "General Optimizer Improvements" section.
+ <li>A new store merging pass has been added. It will attempt to merge + constant stores to adjacent memory locations into fewer wider stores. + It can be enabled by using the <code>-fstore-merging</code> option and is + enabled by default at the <code>-O2</code> optimization level or + higher.</li> Here I'd say "it attempts to merge" or, better yet, let's just say "it merges". Let's not be too shy. :-) (This still does not claim that it always succeeds or anything like that, mind.) Okay, with that note taken into consideration. Thanks, Gerald
