Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 10:03 AM Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Say 'memory lifetime' rather than 'memory life' as lifetime is the more
>> standard term nowadays (indeed we have e.g. -fno-lifetime-dse).
>>
>> It's also easier to grep for if someone is looking for the documentation on
>> where we do that.
>
> OK
Could you push for me please? I have a sw account but no gcc access
(yet).
cheers
>
>> gcc/ChangeLog:
>> * doc/passes.texi (Dead code elimination): Explicitly say 'lifetime'
>> as this has become the standard term for what we're doing here.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sam James <s...@gentoo.org>
>> ---
>> gcc/doc/passes.texi | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gcc/doc/passes.texi b/gcc/doc/passes.texi
>> index eb2bb6062834..470ac498a132 100644
>> --- a/gcc/doc/passes.texi
>> +++ b/gcc/doc/passes.texi
>> @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ and is defined by @code{pass_early_warn_uninitialized}
>> and
>> @item Dead code elimination
>>
>> This pass scans the function for statements without side effects whose
>> -result is unused. It does not do memory life analysis, so any value
>> +result is unused. It does not do memory lifetime analysis, so any value
>> that is stored in memory is considered used. The pass is run multiple
>> times throughout the optimization process. It is located in
>> @file{tree-ssa-dce.cc} and is described by @code{pass_dce}.
>> --
>> 2.42.0
>>
