On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Hi Richi, > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Richard Guenther wrote: > > This removes matrix-reorg which is today useless and possibly > > dangerous. It follows struct-reorg down the kitchen-sink. > > how about the following patch for the GCC 4.8 release notes?
I'd not mention the command-line flags. > Would you like to propose a (politically correct ;-) snippet > on why you removed the two ? They were not working correctly and they did not work with LTO which made them useless apart from for single-TU programs. Richard. > Gerald > > Index: changes.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.8/changes.html,v > retrieving revision 1.26 > diff -u -3 -p -r1.26 changes.html > --- changes.html 2 Sep 2012 15:56:24 -0000 1.26 > +++ changes.html 2 Sep 2012 18:39:27 -0000 > @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ explicit use of vector types may be inco > built with older versions of GCC. Auto-vectorized code is not affected > by this change.</p> > > -<h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2> > +<h2>General Optimizer Improvements (and Changes)</h2> > > <ul> > <li>A new option <code>-ftree-partial-pre</code> was added to control > @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ by this change.</p> > This option is enabled by default at the <code>-O3</code> optimization > level, and it makes PRE more aggressive. > </li> > + <li>The struct reorg and matrix reorg optimizations (command-line > + options <code>-fipa-struct-reorg</code> and > + <code>-fipa-matrix-reorg</code>) have been removed.</li> > </ul> > > > > -- Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> SUSE / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend
