On 23/01/17 16:45, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > 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>
I also think you should either use 'fewer, wider, stores' (with commas) or, if you don't like the commas: 'a smaller number of wider stores'. R. > > 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
