On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 11:25 AM Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> writes:
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> > 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).
Done after fixing ChangeLog format.
Richard.
> 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
> >>
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